Posted on: 11:54 Wed, 16 Mar 2016



The Nigeria Union of Petroleum
and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG,
has said that the ongoing fuel
scarcity in the country may persist
until the Federal Government takes
effective action on petroleum
products availability.

The declaration comes even as
independent oil marketers and
other private petroleum products
operators insist that the Nigeria
National Petroleum Corporation,
NNPC, is running a monopolistic
system.

President of NUPENG, Comrade
Igwe Achese, told Vanguard,
“Clearly from the perspective of
our own study, in as much we are
concerned with the current
situation we find ourselves, scarcity
will continue.

However, like we rightly said, if
Federal Government is having a
political will to address these issues,
definitely, we will get out of this
quagmire. For now, I’m sure we
will still continue to find ourselves
in where we are.

“NNPC, through its Products and
Pipeline Marketing Company,
PPMC, subsidiary is trying
everything possible to see that this
scarcity issue is resolved, but it also
requires the commitment of all
stakeholders.”

Regarding the loading of products
at the depots of PPMC and other
marketers, he argued that, “It is not
an issue of Capital Oil, or Mosimi, it
is an issue of the process. We need
to change our approach, we need to
change our structure in terms of
the way and manner we carry out
these operations.”