The Senate Committee on Petroleum
Downstream has blamed the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and
marketers for the ongoing short supply of the petroleum products in the
country.
The Committee Chairman, Kabiru
Marafa, stated this on Monday in Gusau while inspecting the fuel situation in
the country.
Mr. Marafa, who was accompanied
by a member of the committee, 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.
Mr. Marafa commended the state
Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) field office for 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. (NAN)
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