The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, on Tuesday directed the Department of Petroleum Resources to seal off fuel stations found to be hoarding petroleum
products and dispense the petroleum free to the public.
The Minister gave the directive after a working visit to some
retail outlets in Abuja.
“I have instructed DPR that if they discover any fuel station involved in hoarding, they should sell the
products for free to customers around there,” he said. “It is not just sealing the station that is the answer. It is penalizing them when they do these things. I
hope the message goes out loud and clear.” Meanwhile, the Minister has scheduled a session on Wednesday with key operators in the downstream sector of the petroleum industry, namely the
Major Marketers Association of Nigeria, Depot and Petroleum
Products Marketers Association, as well as Jetty and Tank Farm
Owners Associations.
The meeting is expected to mobilise the oil marketers across the country to cooperate with
government to ensure speedy clearance of the fuel queues. “I am getting all the majors to get involved and they must take charge of the situation. They
must take responsibility for all
their filling stations. I have instructed the DPR and the Petroleum Equalization Fund and
all the other agencies to work towards the Fast track movement
of petrol bearing trucks and vessels,” he explained. Currently, he said there was
enough supply of petroleum products by the Nigerian National petroleum Corporation, as about 38 million litres of
products haa been moved to various filling stations across the country help resolve the crisis.
On the approved payment of N413 billion subsidy claims to marketers, the minister confirmed that President
Muhammadu Buhari had since transmitted a letter to the National Assembly for the approval of subsidy claims.
The Central Bank of Nigeria, he assured, would soon make the
funds available to the marketers once appropriated by the
National Assembly.
The Minister also said there was no plan by the government to
reduce the price of petrol soon, adding that marketers should
desist from hoarding fuel and make products available to the motorists. To ensure that products become available to consumers, the NNPC
said figures from the daily dispatch of petrol to depots across the country showed that by Tuesday about 38.3 million litres of petrol was dispatched by
the Pipeline and Products Marketing Company, PPMC across
the country.


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I am loving NAIJA now oooo. No time for nonsense anymore

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I'll comment later. Make I sleep first

Its Action time for DPR. I just hope I will be lucky when DPR will dispatch free fuel to motorist.