The Senate Committee on Petroleum Downstream
has blamed the Nigeria National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) and marketers over short
supply of the petroleum products in the country.
The Committee Chairman, Sen. Kabiru Marafa,
stated this on Monday in Gusau during an
oversight assignmnet in the state on fuel situation
in the country.
Marafa, who was accompanied by a member of
the committee, Sen. Abdullahi Danbaba said the
inspection was part of the assignment given to
the committee by Senate President Bukola Saraki.
“I have directed all members of this committee to
go back to their constituencies to investigate the
problem at the grassroots so that we take
approximate measures to address the scarcity.
“We visited NNPC zonal depot Gusau to find out
the quantity of fuel supply to the depot and we
noticed short supply of the commodity.
“We are going to present our findings to the
senate. It is very disturbing to see the suffering
faced by people due to fuel scarcity in the
country.
“We question the NNPC over this issue because
the Group Managing Director of the NNPC,
Maikanti Baru said they had doubled the quantity
of daily supply of the product, but it is not
available to the public.
“Another unfortunate thing is the attitude of our
filling stations owners who sell this commodity to
the public; they are involved in one or two
malpractices.
”In fact out of the filling stations we visited only
two have complied with the government directives
in this regard,” he said.
Marafa commended the state Department of
Petroleum Resources (DPR) field office in
ensuring compliance at the filling stations.
The senator urged the DPR to sanction filling
stations involved in hoarding and selling above
approved government price of N145 per litre.
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