In the bid to end the embarrassing and lingering scarcity of petroleum across the country, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, has opened its reserves across the federation. This is according to the Petroleum marketers.
The revelation was made by the National President of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Hammed Fashola and Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria, Billy Hilly-Harry. Both Presidents of the marketing associations stated this in a separate statement after meeting with NNPCL on Saturday.
According to DAILY POST, the IPMAN President, Fashola said his members will meet on Monday in Abuja. This is in a bid to join NNPLC to end the fuel scarcity.
The IPMAN President, therefore, urged Nigerians not to engage in panic buying. He assured that petroleum products will be available nationwide.
“We are officially meeting with other marketers on Monday. We are working closely with NNPCL.
“The Monday meeting is for our National Executive Council. After the meeting, we will reach out to the NNPCL. We talk with them every day.
“The meetings we have been holding with the NNPCl are in collaboration, which we have been doing.
“If you notice, yesterday (Friday), NNPC opened up their reserves in all the depots throughout the federation. We are working with them to ensure that everywhere is wet so this thing (scarcity) can disappear,” Fashola said.
Speaking in the same light, Hilly-Harry said the meeting between NNPCL and marketers had helped present a solution to the fuel scarcity.
According to him, queues have started easing off in Abuja during the weekend.
“The good news is that this is a new reality. It will bring better solutions. Because the result will be fantastic. When you have NNPCL doing what they must do, and we also do what we must do.
“If you go to Abuja today (Saturday), you will see that the queues have eased off,” he stated.
ISUIKWUATO VOICE recalls that for weeks, Nigerians had continued to battle fuel scarcity. This is in spite of NNPCL’s assurance of availability of the product.