Fuel queues to end by weekend, PPMC boss assures

The Managing Director, Pipelines and Products Marketing Company (PPMC), Mrs. Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue, on Thursday, assured that fuel queues across the country will end by the weekend.

The PPMC boss, who said her company was making frantic efforts to provide supplies across the country, said: “We have people trucking out (fuel) from Port Harcourt, Warri, Ogarra, Calabar as alternative sources for Lagos. So, all efforts are being made to ensure that by weekend, all these would be a thing of the past.”

Mrs Nnamdi-Ogbue, who spoke with reporters in Abuja, revealed that the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and all its major agencies such as the Department of Petroleum Resources, Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency and the Petroleum Equilization Fund (PEF) now have a taskforce comprising their officials to help curb the fuel menace.

She said that efforts were being made to ensure that “while we are trucking out efficiently, approvals and all necessary documentations are done effectively to make sure that there is no delay in the process of trucking out and distribution and that things are effectively done.”

She added that “right now, we have about eight vessels coming in, each of which ranges between 30 to 40 thousand metric tonnes capacity and these should be more than enough to ensure sufficiency. On Wednesday alone, over one thousand trucks were loaded and trucked out by the majors and PPMC.

“We are hopeful that this will soon be a thing of the past and we are making efforts to ensure that it never recurs.

“Right now, more than 300 trucks should be arriving in Abuja and we are tracking them to ensure that they duly arrive here. We have our staff all over, monitoring to make sure that the volumes brought in are actually discharged. In most of the major or strategic stations, they are selling fuel twenty-four hours, which is throughout the day so that the situation is effectively brought to normalcy.”

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