The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) on Wednesday attributed the inability of motorists to get petrol to fuel their vehicles across the country to ongoing road construction around Apapa area of Lagos where depots for storage of the product are located.
According to the NNPCL, the movement of trucks being used to load petrol from the depot to different parts of the country have been by constrained by the ongoing road construction.
NNPC’s Executive Vice-President, Downstream, Mr Adeyemi Adetunji, who said this at a press briefing added that access road challenges in some parts of Lagos depots has also impacted loading of petrol to Abuja and other parts of the country.
“The recent queues in Lagos are largely due to ongoing road infrastructure projects around Apapa and access road challenges in some parts of Lagos depots.
“The gridlock is easing out and NNPC has programmed vessels and trucks to unconstrained depots and massive loadouts from depots to various states are closely being monitored.”
‘Abuja is impacted by the challenges recorded in Lagos. NNPC Retail and key marketers have intensified dedicated loading into Abuja to restore normalcy as soon as possible.”
But he assured that efforts are ongoing to ensure that normalcy returns as soon as possible, adding that NNPC has a national PMS stock of over 2 billion litres which would last more than 30 days.
“We want to reassure all Nigerians that NNPC has sufficient products, and we significantly increased products loading including 24-hour operations in selected depots and extended hours at strategic stations to ensure products sufficiency nationwide.
“We are also working with the NMDPRA, MOMAN, DAPPMAN, IPMAN, NARTO, PTD, and other industry stakeholders to ensure normalcy is returned,” he said.
credit: PM News
