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FUEL SCARCITY: NNPC is responsible

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There have been speculations, as to the actual cause of queues that are beginning to build up in service stations across Nigeria. In its bid to set matters straight, the Petroleum Tankers Drivers (PTD), which is a Branch of National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has put the blame for fuel scarcity on the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

The National Chairman of PTD, Comrade Salimon Akanni Oladiti, who spoke in an Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, said oil marketers were not hoarding fuel.

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“We are not conniving with anybody to make Nigerians suffer for fuel. For some time now, we have not been able to load at NNPC depot in Apata, Ibadan and there is no hope of loading in some other NNPC depots in the Southwest.

“Government is responsible for this problem, because if they bring enough oil into the country, we as distributors we are ready to sell it out. It’s so sad that we are one of the largest producers of oil, but we are still suffering from scarcity,” he said

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Oladiti added: “NNPC imports about 75 per cent of the oil we are consuming in the country. The remaining 25 percentage is for major marketers.

“What the government is trying to tackle still exist; corruption is still in the oil industry. There is corruption and bribery at the oil depots and you have to face this hurdle before you can load your truck.”

He noted that government needs to find lasting solution to incessant fuel scarcity, adding: “The common man in the country is suffering.”

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