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  • Fuel Scarcity: Buhari To Hold Secret Talks With Petrol Importers
  • Reports reaching us reveal that, the president-
    elect, Muhammadu Buhari, will be holding a
    secrete meeting with petrol marketers on how
    to resolve the lingering fuel scarcity causing
    Nigerians untold hardship.


    Tokunbo Korodo, the south west chairman of
    the National Union of Petroleum and Natural
    Gas Workers (NUPENG) disclosed this
    information today, May 19.
    Korodo said Buhari will meet Depot and
    Petroleum Products Marketing Association
    (DAPPMA) on the subsidy matter.

    “I think the outcome of that meeting may
    determine if DAPPMA will reopen the depots for
    loading or import more into the country,” he
    said.
    The chairman noted that the prevailing fuel
    shortage may worsen if depot traders shut
    their depots to tanker drivers. He continued
    that no tanker driver had loaded petroleum
    products as at 1.30p.m on Monday.

    “What I was told was that the independent
    depot owners may have shut their depots to
    tanker drivers because of the over N200 billion
    owed them by the Federal Government ,”
    Korodo said.

    He added that the repositioning of tankers
    from highways and the inability to load fuel at
    the depots, were responsible for the free-flow
    of traffic in Apapa axis.

    According to him, the previous directive by the
    Lagos State Government for tanker drivers to
    move from the highways within 48 hours had
    not produced any result.
    Korodo said tanker drivers have freed the
    highways, but other heavy duty vehicles,
    particularly container drivers have taken over.

    “The government cannot chase tanker drivers
    away for other heavy duty vehicles to occupy
    the space.

    “Lagosians should know that tankers have not
    been the problem of gridlock in Lagos.
    “We occupied the road because we were told
    to pick fuel only at Apapa,” he said.
    Korodo, however, advised the administration to
    appease importers to come back to the sector.
    It should be noted that the petroleum
    products’ dealers on May 14, said they would
    no longer import products except the Federal
    Government settles their subsidy claims.

    The government had put the subsidy debt at
    N131 billion while the traders insisted it is
    N200 billion. For the past four decades, the
    government has been subsidising the
    consumption of petroleum products in Nigeria.

    It should be recalled that the Nigerian
    Telecommunication Limited held the nation’s
    communication system hostage for several
    decades until former President Olusegun
    Obasanjo, broke its domination.

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