The
Spokesman for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Omar Farouk Ibrahim,
has described the reappearance of long queues of vehicles at filling stations
in Lagos as an artificially induced scarcity.
While
speaking to Channels Television via telephone on Sunrise Daily, he said that
there were absolutely no reasons for filling stations not to sell fuel to the
people.
He
revealed that there had been a similar situation in Abuja in the previous week
and the special task force comprising NNPC, PPPRA, and the DPR went out to
ensure that all the lines in Abuja were decimated.
He
then stated that the NNPC did not believe that there was fuel scarcity in
Lagos, but rather they believed that people were hoarding because some think
that Government was going to raise the price of petrol, an assumption he said
“there is no truth in”.
“Government
is not, as far as we know, going to raise any price, and retailers who have
fuel in their tanks should please release it for people to buy.”
The
Executive Secretary of the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria, MOMAN,
Obafemi Olaore, had been quoted to have said, “The Federal Government through
the PPPRA just released the 1st quarter allocation of fuel importation to
petroleum marketers who will now commence importation of the product”. He also
said that importers should have brought in the products in the next one month.
However, some information circulating early Tuesday 4th of March 2014 said that the Presidency is deliberately working in tandem with the marketers to make it hard for fuel to go round the major cities. This will keep the people more worried about getting fuel than getting the probe kick-started.
MikeAtols will bring you latest as the news develops.
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