The Group Executive Director, Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Aisha Abdulrahman, on
Tuesday, assured Nigerians that long queues in petrol
stations will end before weekend.
Aisha gave the assurance when the Supervising Minister
of Information, Edem Duke, visited the NNPC Mega
Station on Olusegun Obasanjo Way in Wuse Zone 1,
Abuja.
"We are assuring you before the end of the week queues
will be a thing of the past and if it still persist, I will
personally be on the stations to see that you get fuel",
she said.
Aisha said the queue was as a result of speculations
about impending increase in pump price of petrol.
"There is this speculation that price of fuel and other
products will be increased and people tend to panic.''
She, however, said that leakage and pipeline vandalism
were part of the challenges facing distribution.
According to her, the corporation is doing its best to
address the problem.
"I think this is a wrong time for Nigerians to begin to
queue up to buy fuel and engage in panic buying.
It is easing out, and by tomorrow and by the end of the
week, the long queues will disappear all over the
country", she said.
She added that the corporation had adopted a standard
practice by ensuring 24 hours service delivery to ease
out the queues.
Managing Director, NNPC Retail, Chris Osarumwense,
said the corporation had enough and had distributed
products round the country.
"We had a small challenge in our supply systems; but
that has been ratified. It will take some time for us to
clear the queue" he said.
He, however, said that Petroleum Products and
Marketing Company (PPMC), had capacity to ensure
distribution of products from March 3 to April 2.
"We are to service the NNPC network, all over the
country; we get about 225 trucks daily.
In NNPC branded retail, we have about 550 retails as
well as our affiliated retails", he said.
The Supervising Minister of Information encouraged
other petrol stations to ensure 24 hours service delivery
so as to ease out the queues.
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