Gerard Izuora.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has stated that its
adoption of a 24-hour depot and retail services cleared the fuel queues in
Abuja, Lagos and many states across the country.
NNPC Chief Operating Officer, Ventures and Chairman of the NNPC Special
Task Force on Fuel Monitoring, Dr. Victor Babatunde Adeniran, made this
disclosure to newsmen after an on-the-spot monitoring of NNPC Retail
stations and those of Major and Independent Marketers in Abuja.
Adeniran said the Corporation would always keep faith with its mandate of
ensuring energy sufficiency, adding that the corporation has taken adequate
measures to normalize products supply situation in the Country.
Speaking in a similar vein, the Managing Director of PPMC, Mr. Umar Ajiya,
said the NNPC took delivery of two cargoes on Wednesday with 50 million
litres of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) otherwise known as petrol. He added
that the corporation was expected to take delivery of a minimum of one cargo
per day going forward.
He said the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) personnel had been
deployed to all the depots across the country to ensure that petroleum
products were sold at the official price to petroleum marketers to avoid any
shock in supply of petroleum products.