The Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), Mele Kyari has said long queues at filling stations caused by Sallah break.
TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) reports the GMD reassured residents of the FCT and affected regions that the long queues currently being experienced will ease out soonest.
Speaking shortly after meeting with the House of Representatives Ahdoc committee on the rehabilitation of refineries, he attributed the current scarcity to the inability of tankers to supply products due to the workers Day and Eid-fitr holidays.
While speaking on the lingering fuel scarcity in Abuja and other parts of the country, the NNPC helmsman assured Nigerians that there is sufficient Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) to meet national demand.
He explained that there is a total of 2.8 billion litres of PMS in the country, sufficient to meet national demand for the next 47 days even without importation.
“During the holidays, truck drivers could not present trucks in most of the depot and because of that, there are some glitches around load out in the depots.
“We have corrected this, all trucks loaded out at the maximum today; we believe this is a very temporary thing, we believe with 150 trucks coming into Abuja today and another 150 coming into Abuja tomorrow, the scarcity will soon go away,” he opined.
While assuring that the long queues will soon vanish, Kyari explained that relevant authorities are taking steps to ensure that parallel marketers popularly known as ‘black marketers’ do not take advantage of the situation.
He, assured that once supply is maximised, the black marketers will disappear effortlessly.
He also maintained that mechanism are being put in place to take care of the menace of black marketers who take advantage of the scarcity to make quick money.
TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) recalls that the Chairman of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria Kano state, Bashir Danmalam, on Monday told Nigerians to brace-up for the worst due to outstanding bridging claims amounting to over five hundred billion naira owed it members by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority.
The GMD NNPC has doused the tensions raised by emanating speculations from some quarters which might disrupt the peace of the Nation.