LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA) – The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) says that it is assuring Nigerians that the fuel crisis will be over soon.
The agency admitted that situations like this sabotage normal operations but highlighted that five vessels containing 240 million-litre of petrol are already Dispatched to five depot.
This, was confirmed by the South-West Regional Coordinator of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, Ayo Cardoso, In a chat with The PUNCH on Monday.
The regional coordinator said the agency was doing its best to ensure Nigerians were not exploited by filling stations.
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He added “We are doing something about the fuel crisis; very soon it will be over. Vessels are discharging as I am talking to you. What we are concentrating on is to push the NNPC, which is the supplier of last resort, to make sure they wet the entire populace.
“So, we have about five vessels already discharging the product, about 240 million litres are being discharged as I am talking to you right now. We are working round the clock.
“But then, once you have a problem, it takes like one or two weeks to (normalise), but people will keep on panicking, which is not supposed to be. All these kinds of things disrupt the normal way of operations. But with 240 million litres coming in from five vessels discharging to five depots already today, things will get back to normal,” Cardoso assured Nigerians.
However, Nigerians have expressed their displeasure on the average price of petrol across the federation.