FG, marketers vow to end fuel scarcity next week

The Federal Government and oil marketers came out of a meeting on Friday in Abuja with a promise to Nigerians that the current fuel shortages being experienced in some parts of the country will come to an end by Saturday, next week.

The Permanent Secretary of the Petroleum Ministry, Mr. Taiye Haruna who read out the resolutions reached at the meeting to newsmen, said it was agreed that the PPMC, as well as marketers, should increase the level of product supply across the country.

He was however silent on issues touching the over N200bn subsidy claims being demanded by fuel marketers from the Federal Government.

The meeting was well attended by stakeholders in the sector, top officials from the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria, Pipelines and Product Marketing Company, and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation in attendance.

Others were heads from the Department of Petroleum Resources, Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, Petroleum Equalisation Fund and the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources.

Haruna said, “It was identified that one of the constraints to the distribution of products is the logjam at Apapa in Lagos State. Currently we have over 2,000 trucks lined up on the roads in Apapa.

“So we have agreed to work with the Lagos State government, Petroleum Tanker Drivers, Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners and other stakeholders to clear the logjam. Some trucks have been there for the past 10 days waiting to load products but couldn’t get access to the depot. So we have to clear there in order to start moving products out of the depots”.

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