The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has stated that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) should grant its members access to the depot to resolve the current fuel scarcity within three to four days.
Shino Amoo, the Chairman of IPTelevision’s Depot, made this disclosure on Tuesday during an interview on Channels Television.
Amoo explained that the ongoing fuel scarcity affecting Nigerians in Lagos, Abuja, and other major cities is due to NNPCL’s decision to limit the supply of petrol to oil marketers, preventing them from distributing it adequately.
“Before now, NNPCL gave oil marketers a higher volume” of petrol, all of a sudden, they abandoned that pattern, prioritising Depots and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria, DAPPMAN and Major Energies Marketers Association of Nigeria, MEMAN.
“They are giving small volume of the product, which cannot take care of petrol distribution either to urban or rural areas. We cannot even access the product.
“If NNPCL wants it to work and work well effectively, NNPCL can take a depot in Apapa or Oghara or anywhere and allow IPMAN access to petroleum products effectively.
“If we are picking from the depot, I can assure you that fuel scarcity of a thing will be zero in the next three to four days, because we will deliver the product to urban and rural areas,” he said.
NNPCL said it is working with stakeholders to resolve the current fuel scarcity caused by distribution challenges.