The Nigerian Nationwide Petroleum Company Ltd. has blamed the gasoline shortage that has led to lengthy queues in filling stations nationwide as a consequence of latest rains, lightning, and thunderstorms.
NNPCL’s Vice-President (downstream), Dapo Segun, disclosed this at a press convention on the NNPC towers in Abuja on Tuesday, twentieth August 2024, Folks Gazette stories.
“We’d wish to apologise to Nigerians for the queues we’ve been seeing arising. Plenty of the causes are exterior of our management however we’ll do our greatest to handle. We don’t wish to make excuses.
“For instance, for the reason that rains started, the Estragos channel has been troublesome to navigate by means of. We now have vessel after vessel going round there due to siltation, and that has actually hindered our capacity to deliver petroleum merchandise, notably PMS, up nation.
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“We additionally perceive that with the rains additionally, conditions the place to discharge petroleum merchandise the place there’s lightning, thunderstorms, you need to droop, not simply the discharge of petroleum merchandise onshore but additionally, the evacuation from the tankers. We’ve had conditions which have occurred in latest occasions.
“We’ve additionally had points with the highway community. That additionally provides challenges in bringing these merchandise upcountry. The tightness you see in Lagos presently was as a consequence of a really quick provide hole, which has since been redressed. Vessels are in Lagos now, offloading and discharging as I communicate. So, that’s positively short-lived,” he was quoted as saying.
