The Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) has urged Nigerians to disregard rumours of an impending
scarcity of petrol in the country.
In
a statement issued by Ndu Ughamadu, NNPC spokesman on Thursday, the corporation
said such rumours were “tales fabricated by mischief makers with intent to
create undue panic in the prevailing sanity in the fuel supply and distribution
matrix across the country”.
“The Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) has once again appealed to Nigerians to disregard trending
social media report of an impending fuel scarcity due to purported refusal by
some oil marketers to lift products from depots,” the statement read.
The state oil firm reassured Nigerians that
it already has an ample stock of over one billion litres of petrol, with over
two billion litres secured for April through imports of 48 vessels with
each having a capacity of 50 million litres of petrol.
It said there was “no need for panic buying
or hoarding of petroleum products in anticipation of a phantom scarcity.”
- The Cable
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