Fuel scarcity will soon end —DPR

The Director of Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Mr Mordecai Ladan, has assured Nigerians that the lingering scarcity of petrol will soon come to an end.

Ladan gave the assurance on Thursday during an inspection exercise of some private depots within Apapa axis in Lagos.

According to him, “I can confirm to you that products are coming in gradually in most of the depots visited, some are being discharged while there is assurance that more products will soon come again within the next 48hours.

“I think with all we have seen now in the depots visited, petrol should be available in all filling stations across the country in a few days time. It will soon ease out in days to come.”

Ladan appealed to depots to focus more supply on independent marketers’ filling stations because they were most affected by the scarcity of petrol.

He said the independent marketers have filling stations in most of the major location in the country and most of them had not received a supply for weeks.

The DPR inspection team visited Folawiyo Energy Limited and NIPCO tank Farm in Apapa.

At Folawiyo, Mr Dipo Makanjola said the depot had about 6million litres of petrol and has been operating 24 hours to ensure that Nigerians get the product.
Makanjola said the product belonged to Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and they were loading the product according to the directive of the corporation.

According to him, “the last time we received the product from NNPC was on Dec.23 and that is what we are loading, we hope to get another supply by Saturday.”