The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has engaged the services of the Department of State Service, DSS, and the Economic and the Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in its effort to apprehend petroleum marketers hoarding and diversion the product.
The security agencies are also going to assist in monitoring fuel truck carrying petroleum products to retail outlets nationwide, the corporation said.
This was disclosed on Wednesday by the corporation’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ohi Alegbe.
The corporation assured Nigerians that it was doing everything possible to end the hardship being faced as a result of the scarcity.
Also commenting on the attitude of marketers hoarding petroleum product, the Group Executive Director Commercial and Investment of the Corporation, Dr. Babatunde Adeniran while speaking during a working visit to the NNPC depot in Suleja, Niger State, warned that any marketer found wanting including the NNPC Retail outlet dealers, would be made to face the full wrath of the law.
Adeniran said: “We must all make sure that petroleum products get across to Nigerians at the regulated price especially as the yuletide season approaches. We have enough products and we want to plead with the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) not to be involved in the diversion of petroleum products in order to avoid causing untold hardship to motorists.”
On the issue of the security agencies in curbing product diversion, the Managing Director of the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, Mrs. Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue stated that the DSS and EFCC have been engaged to deal decisively with any marketer found sabotaging the efforts of the Federal Government in ensuring that petroleum products are available to motorists.
She said, “We have invited the EFCC and the DSS to join us in this campaign of monitoring the movement of petroleum products and they have our mandate to sanction any errant marketer. Enough is enough.”
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