A statement by the Group General Manager, Group Public
Affairs Division, Dr. Kennie Obateru, quoted the Managing Director of the
Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC), Mr. Musa Lawan, as saying that
there are about two billion litres of PMS in strategic depots across the
country to keep the nation well supplied for two months if no drop of fuel was
imported in that period.
“We have embarked on massive load out. Today, we trucked out
1,661 trucks from all depots across the country. Reports reaching us show that
they have already started arriving at the filling stations. We believe that
this would ease out the queues,” Lawan reassured.
Lawan disclosed that a 24-hour situation monitoring
committee has been set up to track the movements of trucks from the depots to
the various filling stations across the country, assuring that the queues will
thin out in the next few days.
The PPMC boss explained that the disruption in the
distribution chain was caused by the strike embarked upon by Petroleum Tanker
Drivers (PTD) over compensation.
He assured that with the suspension of the strike upon the
intervention of the Group Managing Director of NNPC, and the resumption of
loading, coupled with the extension of loading time, normalcy would soon return
to the filling stations.
It would be recalled that the GMD’s intervention yesterday
led to the suspension of the strike by the PTD for one week.
Speaking in similar vein at the State House after a meeting
with the President, the Group Managing Director of NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari,
assured that with the resumption of loading, normalcy would soon return to the
fuel situation across the country.
He said the ex-depot price of petrol would remain the same
for the month of May, urging marketers not to engage in arbitrary price
increase.
He urged motorists to avoid panic buying in order not to
compound the situation.
He called on all relevant stakeholders in the downstream
sector to collaborate with the NNPC to ensure a quick return to the zero-fuel
queues situation that Nigerians had been enjoying before the unfortunate
disruption of the distribution chain.
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