Fuel Scarcity: Group urges NNPC workers not to connive with saboteurs

• Lauds Slashing Of Pump Price To N148
The National Association of Petroleum Products and Gas Consumers (NAPGCO) has urged the management and staff members of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to ignore pressure from saboteurs that want fuel scarcity to linger.
The group also commended the NNPC Group Managing Director, Mele Kyari, for adopting measures to guarantee adequate fuel supply by fixing N148 per litre, as the price for lifting petrol at depots.

In a statement, the NAPGCO Chairman, Mohammad Ibrahim Kazaure, also lauded the NNPCL for agreeing to supply outstanding stock to independent oil marketers to end product shortage.
He said: “ There is no doubt that these swift administrative responses to tackle the brewing fuel scarcity problem across the country has helped to make product available at filling stations”.

The group noted that Kyari, in his few years in office, has transformed the NNPC into a profit-making organisation.

Kazaure said: “The greatest feat, beyond making products available, is the slashing of pump price, which was the magic wand that helped to reduce long queues at filling stations.
“ Making the products available would really ease transportation challenge during the Christmas and New Year celebrations.”
“We are glad to announce that saboteurs who make profit from this scarcity have not only been frustrated, but also have been thought a bitter lesson. It is no longer business as usual.”

“There is no doubt that the increase in the national crude oil reserves to achieve the 40,000 billion barrel target through focus and commitment, efforts to revive refineries and decision to collaborate with relevant security agencies to clamp down on saboteurs are enough reasons to sustain steady supply of fuel across the country.