Dr. Peter Afunanya, DSS spokesperson, after a meeting of stakeholders at the headquarters of the service, said the state secret service would commence operations nationwide if the petrol distribution crisis persisted.<\/p>\n
His words after the stakeholders\u2019 meeting: \u201cIt is the mandate of the Service to detect and prevent threat to national security. This is why the Service has to summon the stakeholders meeting in the oil and gas sector to find a lasting solution to the problem before it snowballs into crisis<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is an agreement that marketers will be operating for 24hrs on daily basis and that tankers owners said all hands will be on deck to ensure the lifting of the products.<\/p>\n
\u201cIPMAN has also committed itself to ensure that the product is available for 24 hours daily. The NNPC Ltd disclosed that it has over 1.9bn litres of PMS in stock and also agreed to sell the products at official ex-depot price to all oil marketers nationwide<\/p>\n
\u201cTherefore, we insisted that the fuel distribution must improve and all challenges eliminated in 48 hours and after 48hrs, we will as a matter of urgency carry out operations across the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd in doing this, we won\u2019t mind whose ox is gored. We are sounding a note of warning that it won\u2019t be business as usual.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) last week in Abuja,\u00a0 the motorists, representative of others in the country, expressed displeasure over the reoccurence of long queues at most fuelling stations.<\/p>\n
They urged the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Ltd) and other regulatory bodies to aggressively monitor fueling stations that appear to be hoarding petroleum products.<\/p>\n
According to the motorists, such fuelling stations should be sanctioned.<\/p>\n
NAN Correspondent who monitored some fuelling stations in the territory reports that most of them were not selling petroleum products while only few were seen selling.<\/p>\n
The long queues had caused heavy gridlocks around the areas where the fueling stations selling fuel were located.<\/p>\n
The development had caused hardship on commuters as transportation was difficult to get.<\/p>\n
The motorists also have the perception that some marketers and fueling stations were hoarding the products.<\/p>\n
NAN reports that some of the fueling stations dispensing the products include the Conoil and Total fueling stations opposite the NNPC Towers, which had long queues.<\/p>\n
At Karshi road, only three stations including Forte Oil, Conoil and\u00a0 Best Albino (Black Market) were selling fuel at between N180 and N285,\u00a0 while NNPC Limited Outlet in Karu was selling at N179.<\/p>\n
NNPCL Retail station and SALBAS fueling station close to Gwarimpa-Kado flyover along Kubwa expressway had fuel but with long queues.<\/p>\n
The motorists urged the authorities to revoke the licences of fueling stations that have not dispensed products for months.<\/p>\n
A motorist, Mr Godfrey Aremosele who\u00a0 decried the current scarcity said motorists were suspecting that those stations not selling fuel were lifting products to sell at higher prices in other states and outskirts, thereby causing shortage in Abuja.<\/p>\n
Mr Donald Ugwu, another motorist said the situation was not predictable, adding that the suspicion was that marketers were trying to create artificial scarcity to hike the pump price from N180 being sold by some of their members.<\/p>\n
According to him, it has not been easy for us during and after the yuletide as fuel price has been high in some areas and states which contributed to the high transportation fare experienced by travellers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Enugu, I bought fuel last week at N340 per litre. I just bought today at N280 per litre at Haris fueling station Maraba, Nasarawa state.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe government needs to address issues bordering on fuel crisis,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Another motorist who claimed anonomity expressed displeasure at the situation, adding that there were a lot of things being hidden in the oil and gas sector especially in the subsidy regime.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is better to remove the subsidy completely for Nigerians to know the real price of petrol and face it squarely, \u201d the motorist said.<\/p>\n
The motorists, however, called on the NNPC Limited and other oil regulatory bodies to swing into action and enforce surveillance to fish out marketers and fuelling stations that were hoarding fuel.<\/p>\n
NAN reports that as at the time of filing this report, effort made for authorities to react is yet to yield positive result.<\/p>\n
\u25aa\ufe0e Additional report by NAN<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Almost five weeks after the Department of State Services (DSS) stepped into an excruciating scarcity of premium motor spirit (PMS, known on the streets of Nigeria as petrol) and put to an end to the scarcity in 48 hours, many across the country are wondering why the DSS has gone quiet this time around. While […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":55913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}