MARKETERS DIVERTED 129,000 LITRES FROM ABUJA ON FRIDAY – DPR
source : http://www.eyesoflagos.com/2017/12/marketers-diverted-129000-litres-from.html


Mr Mohammed Saidu, Head Public Affairs Unit of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) says petroleum marketers diverted 129,000 liters of petrol from Abuja on Friday.
Saidu, who revealed this Eyes Of Lagos after monitoring the stations, added that some of the erring filling stations had been given a total fine of more than N30.5 million.
According to him, more intelligence units are liaising with the public to get information for on-the-spot checks since the scarcity began.
Saidu said the products were being diverted without the knowledge of security agents, who have no mechanism to check amount off loaded at filling stations.
”We now have an intelligence measure that ensures that even if one litre of petrol is diverted, the station is penalised. We have a way of tracing it.
”Through this means, we were able to get to Bulasawa, that remote area behind the National Assembly, and they diverted 13,000 litres and they have been issued a letter to pay N3.575 million to the TSA within one week before they will continue their business.
”Whatever products that were there, we allowed them to sell them off on the spot so we don’t compound the issue of scarcity.
”We also got to Oando on Olusegun Obasanjo Way, they also diverted 11,000 litres which means out of the three compartments of the 33,000 that was consigned to them, they took away one compartment.
”They have been issued a letter to pay about N12 million into the TSA.
”We got another station that diverted 15,000 litres and they have been written to pay N15 million to the TSA.
”We got to one station – Toniset, along the Zuba Junction. They applied for formal renovation, they are doing renovation and we were surprised they were given two full load trucks of products without any place to dispense the product.
”We had to trace the two trucks to PPMC to ask how they allocated products to a station that is under construction,” Saidu explained.
He further eplained that the truck diverted from Bulasawa, was traced to one of its stations on Kaduna Road.
”The remaining 33,000 litres as far as we are concerned was not allocated to that station, so it has to pay the N3.5 million fine.
”The essence of making it N275 per litre is because they lifted the products at the depot at about N133 per litre, and so we double it, meaning, in addition to losing the product indirectly to the government, you are also charged additionally and this is to serve as a deterrent and many marketers are getting jittery.
”If the PPMC consign products to only stations that have physical presence, we are sure the scarcity will end,” he said.
He said the department had visited about 360 stations in Abuja, out of which 157 were found to be selling.
”Those few that we found that had products that were not selling, we stationed our staff there to make sure they sell, and they are about 20 stations,” Saidu said.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had earlier blamed the current petroleum scarcity in the country on marketers of the product.
The Group Managing Director of the company, Dr Maikanti Baru, had repeatedly assured Nigerians that the queues would disappear by Saturday as it had a 25-day sufficiency.

Well.. this is the much talked about weekend..

Diverted to where ? Please stop using lies to distract people deom the Truth which is there aint not fuel

Diverted from Abuja to where? Department of petroleum resources, NNPC and APC should come clean to address this situation or forget about statements relating fuel scarcity during the festivities and return normality after the season. 16th January is fine. Buhari is working.

Garshyzee:
Buy why?

What i expirenced at the filling station yesterday was disheartening....we are part of the cause of this issues... A filling station just received fuel. 33000litres, sold for approximately 20mins and d manager said the fuel is finished .. even after d sales price of 250/litr...

Why are we like this to ourselves?
Its high time we changed things for the better..

its greed...the goverment must stay serious,or else this greedy marketers will demand subsidy back....

We are too greedy for money in Nigeria ...

tsdarkside:


its greed...the goverment must stay serious,or else this greedy marketers will demand subsidy back....

Yeap.... But evryone has roles to play.. Government and masses.. Its a 2 way situation

AdeniyiA:
We are too greedy for money in Nigeria ...

fg must stay serious...let the marketers keep palying their greed and we continue punishing them....nigeria cant loose...

dont allow them take a ol nation hostage again....

They're talking of abuja?

The entire country can't access petrol.

What's your excuse for the rest of the country?

These marketers are just greedy

and you wailers should shvt it...we didnt voted out jonathan because of fuel scarcity.....

if we loose this battle then the marketers can do what they want with us again....

fyneguy:
These marketers are just greedy

fact remains they buy it at N133 per litre at the depots....sooo,whats the problem...?....

just telling human beings to not be greedy doesnt work...you have to force them....

whites understand that...thats why things like this dont happen in their nations....

they keep hording we keep sanctioning them...we must prove to them that greed doesnt profit....

The unquenchable thirst to make money by all means by greedy Nigerians is the main reason we are in this present predicament.....

I trust a greedy Nigerian what he can do just to make his illegal money, and i trust the lenght he can go just to hide the illegal money.....Now i know the Toniset filling station Mr Saidu was talkin about. It is currently under renovation.

A marketer who is greedy can truely siphone fuel which is meant to be delivered somewhere into the underground tanks of a fillin station undergoin renovation just because of greed and opportunity regardless of the adverse effect it wil hav on his fellow citizens.

You check am now, If they can hide money inside soakaway pit, if they can hide money inside Container in the farm, if they can hide money inside Overhead tanks, if they can hide money inside Ikoyi towers, Coffins......Then it is easy for me to beleive someone greedy has hidden fuel in a dilapidated fillin station tanks somwhere., which is d cause of the present scarcity of fuel that is Biting us......

Na wao