Petrol marketers in the country have attributed the prevailing scarcity of the product in the country to lack of supply by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited.
National President of the Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria (PETROAN), Billy Gillis-Harry, made this known on Monday on Channels Television’s The Morning Brief breakfast programme.
The shortage of petrol across the country has led to the return of long queues at petrol stations, with the product being sold at between N700 and N1,200 per litre at the retail outlets, while black marketers are selling for as high as N2,000 per litre in the states.
NNPCL in a statement by its spokesman, Olufemi Soneye, said the “tightness in the supply of Premium Motor Spirit currently being experienced in some areas across the country is as a result of logistics issues and that they have been resolved,” and that there was no change in prices.
However, Gillis-Harry, said the supply challenge has not been resolved though he acknowledged efforts by NNPC to solve the problem.
According to him, the logistics problem is peculiar to NNPCL as it has its own outlets which it supplies, adding that if NNPCL supplies to marketers, they’ll be obliged to sell to Nigerians.
