Fuel scarcity: Marketers accuse NNPC of denying them products

Fuel scarcity: Marketers accuse NNPC of denying them products 

Oil marketers have accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited of failing to supply them fuel.

This, they said, was the major cause of the latest fuel scarcity being experienced in Abuja, Lagos and many other parts of the country.

National President of the Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria (PETROAN), Billy Gillis-Harry, disclosed this on Monday while featuring as a guest on a Channels Television breakfast programme, The Morning Brief.

Gillis-Harry said, “We do not have any reason not to serve the public and we are willing to serve the public. All that is required is for us to have petroleum products delivered to us from NNPC and we will make sure that our retail outlets are open, some of them are even open for 24 hours.

“The challenge of logistics is only relevant to the NNPC retail outlets.”

He added, “NNPC has its outlets that they also serve. So, if they have some logistics issues, that will possibly be what is internal to NNPC.”

The latest fuel scarcity is spreading fast and has grounded many economic activities across the country.

Nigerians queue up at filling stations nationwide. While some motorists were lucky to get fuel at some retail outlets for between N700 and N,1200 per litre, others have to resort to the black market.