The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC,
has revealed that over 209 million litres of premium motor spirit otherwise
called petrol has been discharged in lagos ports in the last 24 hours.
In a press statement issued to Journalists, the
Acting Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the NNPC, Dr.
Omar Farouk Ibrahim said all hands were on deck to return normalcy to the fuel
supply chain in the country.
Dr. Ibrahim informed that several vessels have
being allocated to the Major Marketers Association of Nigeria, MOMAN, to wet
the nation with products adding that NIPCO, CONOIL and others also have their
vessels discharging to clear up the queues.
“ I can confirm to you that the NNPC has
allocated additional vessels laden with pms to MOMAN and other suppliers
and they are currently discharging the products at Atlas Cove, Apapa, IBM
jetty, Capital Jetty and SPM jetty in lagos,” Dr. Ibrahim affirmed.
He disclosed that other vessels were also
discharging fuel at Port Harcourt and Oghara in Delta State adding that the
queues will thin out in the next few days.
The NNPC spokesman reassured Nigerians that the
NNPC was doing everything humanly possible to wipe out the queues from filling
stations across the country.
Dr. Omar
Farouk Ibrahim
Acting Group
General Manager
Group Public
Affairs Division,
NNPC, Abuja.
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