By Victoria Onehi
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has promised to restore normalcy to the fuel queues currently witnessed in Abuja/environs and Lagos .
In the past two days,residents of Abuja and environs have witnessed fuel scarcity as many filling station have remained shut in that last 24 hours.
Mr Ikechukwu Kennedy, a resident of Kubwa,Abuja confirmed that the NNPCL filling station at FHA,Kubwa has not been selling fuel since Thursday.
Similarly, Punch reports that filling stations in Abuja and neighbouring states of Niger, Nasarawa, and Kogi, were shut on Friday as oil marketers expressed worry over the planned nationwide protest.
Punch reports that retail outlets, including those operated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited in Kubwa, Salbas Oil, Eterna, and Gegu Oil, among others located on the Kubwa-Zuba expressway, stopped dispensing fuel.
The same scene was also witnessed inside Abuja and parts of Niger and Nasarawa states.
However,the the Chief Corporate Communications Officer NNPC Ltd,Olufemi Soneye, in a statement issued on Saturday said the tightness in fuel supply and distribution witnessed in some parts of Lagos and the FCT is as a result of a hitch in the discharge operations of a couple of vessels.
The statement reads in part:
“The NNPC Ltd wishes to state that the tightness in fuel supply and distribution witnessed in some parts of Lagos and the FCT is as a result of a hitch in the discharge operations of a couple of vessels.”
