Umar
Ajiya, the Managing Director, Nigerian Product Marketing Company, NPMC, on
Wednesday, said petrol from filling stations found to be hoarding products
would be confiscated and served free to motorists.
Mr. Ajiya said this after an inspection of six
stations around the FCT in company of other officials from Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.
According to him, the disappearance of long
queues in Abuja is as a result of hard work and effort between sister agencies
– the NPMC, Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, Department of
Petroleum Resources, DPR, and security agencies.
He said “we moved our operations to 24 hours in
all depots and affiliate retail stations.
”Similarly, our majors have done the same in
Abuja to complement our efforts. In addition, we increased our truck-out
capacity to over 1,300 a day. As you can see, trucks are arriving at several
stations.
”We had also beefed up surveillance and
directed to serve motorists free petrol confiscated from depots or filling
stations found to be hoarding products.
“The genesis of the whole problem was the
proposed increase in price, but we had since debunked that. There was no iota
of truth in that and people should not indulge in panic buying.”
Mr. Ajiya said a plan had been put in place to
ensure a steady supply of products all through the Christmas season and beyond.
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