Depot Owners Raise Alarm  Over Fuel Disruption To  North

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The Petroleum Products Depot Owners Association (PPDOA), has raised alarm over disruption of supply of petroleum products to all the 19 states in Northern Nigeria .
Barrister Trichia Okereke, Executive Secretary, PPDOA,who disclosed this at a press conference in Lagos,attributed the planned disruption to the closure  of the Waziri Jetty in Apapa by the Port Manager of the Nigerian Port Authority (NPA).
He implored  President Muhammadu Buhari, the National Assembly, the Minister of Transportation, Honourable Rotimi Amaechi, and other top government agencies to step in to prevent  the North from being plunged into a major fuel crisis.
Okereke said:“NPA’s closure is so egregious and tactless especially given that, just when the Nigerian Raileay Corporation has almost completed the rail tracks that run directly behind our Depots to assist in the seamless delivery of Petroleum products to the Northern regions, the closure threatens to trincate the plans to Petroleum wet the Norrh and the Middle belt!
“It is against this backdrop that we call upon the esteemed Preaident of Nigeria, Mr. Muhammadu Buhari, the minister of transport, honourable Rotimi Amaechi and the various Heads of Senate and House Committee on Ports and Jetties, ti intervene with the following crucial help.
“Mandate obedience of a Court Order: Given that the NPA closure of the jerty flouts an existing injunction, we ask the Preaident to order NPA obedience of the law and to immediately re-open the Waziri Jetty so that our petroleum operations may continue..The NPA being a body constituted by the government must obey the law, so we respectfully call on the President to order NPA and leader marketing to cease all construction works on the jetty land in order to allow the court to determine the substantive case currently underway.
“Under the equitable rules of “first Right of Refusal,” we plead for the President to approve a grant of 10-Year Lease of the jetty land – at least to give us a try to see what we can do with repairs and upgrade of the Jetty and given that our goal is to install firefighting safety equipment, safeguard of lives and properties that have so calously been disregarded, would be guaranteed.”
But sources close to the NPA faulted the group’s position,saying it’s a wild claim.
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