NNPC assures on fuel scarcity, says queues to vanish by next week

By our reporter| The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) on Wednesday assured that the fuel scarcity in the country will soon be resolved.

Group Managing Director (GMD) of the NNPC, Mele Kyari, who gave the assurance in a meeting with the House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating the importation of adulterated fuel into the country, said the problematic fuel situation will vanish by next week.

“For this current situation, let me assure you we have taken every necessary step to restore supply into this country. We have placed orders significant enough for us to cross into March, with at least 2.1 billion litres of PMS in our custody,” Kyari assured the lawmakers.

“The situation you’re seeing today, I can assure you by next week, it will vanish. All things being equal, because of distribution issues that we may not have control over, including the movement of trucks, otherwise, we have robust supply arrangement to make sure we exit this situation.”

The NNPC boss also appealed to Nigerians over the situation which has triggered fuel scarcity across the country, assuring that the development was not intentional.

“No one out there will bring this product into this country deliberately,” he said. “There is no way we would have seen this methanol except your supplier decides to disclose to you because it is not part of their requirements to look for this.”