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.”
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