The National Union of Petroleum and Natural gas
Workers on Wednesday assured that normalcy
would soon return to filling stations nationwide if
the current tempo of loading at the depots
continued till the weekend.
The South-West Chairman of the union, Alhaji
Tokunbo Korodo, gave the assurance in an interview
with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.
Korodo said that the NNPC commenced massive
pumping of petrol to its depot at Mosinmi early this
week and loading of petroleum trucks had started.
“Going round some depots in Lagos, I observed that
loading was going on and more filling stations are
selling the product at the control price.
“Some filling stations that are selling between N130
and N150 will be forced to sell at control price when
the market is flooded with petrol.
“If NNPC can keep the tempo of the loading till
weekend, more filling stations will have petrol and
the queue of motorists at filling stations will reduce.
“The corporation should ensure that it keeps on
pumping petrol to both major and independent
marketers’ depots to reduce the scarcity,” he said.
The chairman appealed to NNPC management to
ensure that it carried along all stakeholders in the
oil and gas sector so that the fuel scarcity could end
as promised.
Korodo urged the corporation to maintain the
current loading system at depots.
The Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe
Kachikwu, had on March 29, said that the long
queues in the petrol stations would disappear by
April 7.