Be Patient, Fuel Crisis To End In Two Weeks, NNPC Begs Nigerians - Politics

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), yesterday urged
Nigerians to be patient, as it is working round the clock to ensure
that the fuel crisis currently witnessed across the country end within
the next two weeks.

The NNPC, in a statement signed by its Group General Manager, Group
Public Affairs Division, Mr. Garba Deen Mohammed, said as at 1600hrs
yesterday, one Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) cargo, containing 42 million
litres had completely discharged, two more PMS cargos with a combined
'Remaining on Board' (ROB) of 44 million litres are currently
discharging while another PMS cargo containing 44 million litres is
berthed and awaiting discharge.

The NNPC said it has enough products lined up to ensure that the
supply gap which created the problem is bridged, while it added that
in order to ensure effective distribution, it is working with
Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), oil
majors and over 1,000 NNPC staff, nationwide to ensure it overcomes
the obstacles in the distribution of the products.

The NNPC said its immediate concern was to make petrol available
through the interventions and processes put in place so that the
queues will disappear within the next one to two weeks, while in the
long term, it is working with the Government to put in place
machineries to ensure that the refineries are fixed and working
optimally, while the pipelines which have been under attack for some
time now are repaired.

According to the NNPC, the Direct Sale Direct Purchase (DSDP)
arrangement for crude would commence in the first week of April and
all these coupled with the fact that the President has given his
support to increase the crude supply to NNPC to ensure local
sufficiency of products would go a long way to solve the problems in
the short and long term