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Vehicles queuing
for fuel in Abuja
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As
the scarcity of fuel continues to bite hard at various part of the country, the
Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and the Petroleum Products Pricing
Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has been given directives to sanction any marketer
found hoarding, diverting or selling products above regulated prices.
Leadership newspaper reports:
The
directive was handed down by the minister of petroleum resources, Mrs Diezani
Alson-Madueke, against the background that the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) has put the current stock of petrol in its depots across the
country at 1.9 billion litres.
This
is even as the NNPC has called on members of the public to shun panic buying
and stock-piling of petrol as there is enough stock. A statement made available
to journalists by the corporation’s spokesman, Ohi Alegbe, also appealed to
tanker drivers who had stopped hauling fuel from depots in the coastal states
to the Northern part of the country for fear of being caught in unfounded fears
of post-election violence to return to work as the corporation is working
closely with security agencies to provide maximum security for them.
Meanwhile, members of the
public have been urged to discountenance rumours or insinuations of petrol
scarcity as all issues relating to the importation of fuel by marketers have
been resolved.
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