Abubakar Maigandi, vice-president, Independent Petroleum
Marketers Association of Nigeria, (IPMAN), says petroleum products will be
available from Wednesday.
He warned motorists against panic buying.
Maigandi made the caution on Tuesday while speaking as a
guest on Newsday, a news programme on Arise TV.
“The government and the NNPC is (sic) on it,” he said.
“There is no way we can sell those contaminated because it
will affect motorists.
“But…car owners should stop panic-buying. By God’s grace,
today or tomorrow, the product will be available nationwide.”
Nigerians woke up to queues at various filling stations
across the country on Monday.
By Tuesday morning, the queues extended across cities as
citizens scrambled for various quantities of the products.
It affected Lagos and Abuja as filling stations shut down
services, causing long queues.
In some instances, long queues were seen with no petrol
attendant to attend to the customers.
The scarcity currently being experienced is said to be due
to efforts by regulators to recall contaminated imported petroleum products.
Sources say most of the petrol Nigeria imported under the
Direct Sale, Direct Purchase (DSDP) contract through Litasco, an international
marketing and trading company of LUKOIL, had a high content of methanol and
Ethanol, which are outside the official specification of Nigeria’s petrol.
In a video that circulating online, a petrol attendant was
seen complaining about how adulterated petrol supplied to the station is
damaging motorists’ cars and motorcycle engines.
When asked who was to be held responsible, Maigandi said
IPMAN buys its product through NNPC and private depots.
According to him, in every business sometimes “there must an
issue and this has been already understanding (sic) without many damages”.
He, however, said NNPC is working seriously to see that they
get the correct product so that the marketers will continue loading.
“Already, we told all our marketers to stand by the various
depot that they are loading. Immediately when we start receiving the
uncontaminated products, the products will be available in most of our filling
stations nationwide,” he said.
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