Posted on: 06:11 Wed, 30 Mar 2016



The National Union of Petroleum and
Natural gas (NUPENG ) Workers on
Wednesday assured that normalcy
would soon return to filling stations
nationwide if the current tempo of
loading at the depots continued till the
weekend.

The South-West Chairman of the
union, Alhaji Tokunbo Korodo, gave
the assurance in an interview with the
News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.

Korodo said that the NNPC
commenced massive pumping of
petrol to its depot at Mosinmi early
this week and loading of petroleum
trucks had started.

“Going round some depots in Lagos, I
observed that loading was going on
and more filling stations are selling
the product at the control price.

“Some filling stations that are selling
between N130 and N150 will be forced
to sell at control price when the
market is flooded with petrol.

“If NNPC can keep the tempo of the
loading till weekend, more filling
stations will have petrol and the
queue of motorists at filling stations
will reduce.

“The corporation should ensure that it
keeps on pumping petrol to both
major and independent marketers’
depots to reduce the scarcity,” he said.
The chairman appealed to NNPC
management to ensure that it carried
along all stakeholders in the oil and
gas sector so that the fuel scarcity
could end as promised.

Korodo urged the corporation to
maintain the current loading system
at depots.

The Minister of State for Petroleum,
Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, had on March 29,
said that the long queues in the petrol
stations would disappear by April 7.