South-West Chairman of the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, Tokunbo Korodo, has assured Nigerians that the long queues seen at several filling stations across the country will soon disappear.
Korodo gave this assurance on Wednesday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, in Lagos.
He noted that if the current rate of loading of petrol at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, depots continued till the weekend, normalcy would soon return to filling stations nationwide.
“Going round some depots in Lagos, I observed that loading was going on and more filling stations are selling the product at the control price.
“Some filling stations that are selling between N130 and N150 will be forced to sell at control price when the market is flooded with petrol,” he told NAN.
Speaking further, he said, “If NNPC can keep the tempo of the loading till weekend, more filling stations will have petrol and the queue of motorists at filling stations will reduce.
“The corporation should ensure that it keeps on pumping petrol to both major and independent marketers’ depots to reduce the scarcity.”
Korodo urged the NNPC to maintain the current loading system at depots and ensure all stakeholders in the oil and gas sector are carried along so as to end the fuel scarcity soon as promised.
It would be recalled that the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, promised Nigerians on Tuesday that the scarcity would disappear before the end of next week.
