The fuel scarcity has become an embarrassing phenomenon to the present administration as all promises made by the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu to end the scarcity have failed.
Kachikwu had promised to return normalcy to the fuel supply on April 7 but the scarcity has persisted as motorists queue for hours at the some fuel stations that dispense products
But the statement from the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the NNPC, Mal. Garba Deen Muhammad stated Tuesday in Abuja that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, and its downstream subsidiary Nigerian Products Marketing Company, NPMC, have assured 12 cargoes laden with Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) otherwise known as petrol are currently discharging in Lagos, Calabar and Port Harcourt ports in order to wet the nation with robust supply and distribution of petrol.
Muhammad gave this assurance after a tour of some filling stations in Abuja and its environs.
He informed that the NNPC, Major Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN), and the Independent Petroleum Marketing Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), are all trucking out petrol from their various marine and inland depots to stabilise the situation.
