Mohammed Shosanya
The Coalition for Civil Society Organisations,says it has confirmed the availability of petroleum products at Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL),just as it advised Motorists against panic buying.
Many filling stations in Nigeria has recently witnessed long queues due to scarcity of fuel.
But,the Coalition of the CSOs in its reaction on the development, said it has confirmed availability of products from the NNPCL management,which was caused by logistics issues that was later resolved .
The Coalition of Civil Society Organisations which disclosed this in a press statement made available to journalist in Kaduna,said now that NNPC attributed logistics problem as the major cause of the queues, there should be no need for any tension.
The statement signed by Comrade Abdullahi Ibrahim Gimba,the CSOs implored motorists to be patient, because NNPCL as sole importer of petrol has enough products.
Commending the Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPCL, Mal. Mele Kyari for the swift efforts to address the logistics problem and measures taken so far to revive the National Oil Company and resume full production, the group described as unfortunate ,the situation,where black marketers capitalised on the glitch to exploit motorists and other residents that jostled to buy at prices ranging between N1000 and N1200 per litre.
“It is unhealthy that this happened when many Nigerians are anticipating a crash in prices of PMS.The idea of increase in cost of the product to an average of N700/litre at stations owned by independent marketers at this critical period of hardship is unacceptable.
“We read the reaction of NNPCL on fuel scarcity problem via the press statement issued by Chief Corporate Communications Officer, NNPC, Olufemi Soneye, who also confirmed that the scarcity was due to issues around logistics that have been resolved.
” Having carefully read the clarifications made on the tightness in the supply of petrol currently being experienced in some areas across the country , we agree that it shouldn’t stir up tension that will take us back to the days of recurring long queues at filling stations.
” We are not unaware that the queues for petrol grew worse in Abuja and neighbouring Nasarawa and Niger states recently but the good news is that NNPCL has resolved the issues.
” We are ready to draft our Monitoring and evaluation unit to help the Federal Government to bring sanity to the Oil Sector.” the group stated.
