National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has assured Nigerians that the long fuel queues at filling stations across the country would disappear very soon if Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) maintains the current tempo of loading at the depots till weekend.
The union’s South-West Chairman, Alhaji Tokunbo Korodo said that NNPC has commenced massive pumping of petrol to its depot at Mosinmi early this week and loading of petroleum trucks was going on simultaneously.
He said,“Going round some depots in Lagos, I observed that loading was going on and more filling stations are beginning to sell the product at the control price,” adding that, “Some filling stations that are selling between N130 and N150 would 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”, he opined.
Advising that, “The corporation should ensure that it keeps on pumping petrol to both major and independent marketers’ depots to reduce the scarcity.”
Mr Korodo appealed to the management of NNPC to ensure that all stakeholders in the oil and gas sector were carried along in the trouble-shooting efforts to end the scarcity as promised.
Minister of State for Petroleum and Group Managing Director of NNPC, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, had earlier promised that the current long queues at petrol stations nationwide would disappear by April 7.
