DSS Gives NNPC, IPMAN, NUPENG, Others 48 Hours To End Fuel Scarcity
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The secret agency warned that it would launch a nationwide operation on saboteurs if there are still queues at various filling stations in the country after the ultimatum.
DSS spokesperson, Peter Afunanya, stated this shortly after the Director-General of DSS, Yusuf Magaji Bichi, met with major stakeholders in the oil industry at the agency headquarters in Abuja yesterday.
Afunanya said stakeholders at the meeting included: Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN), depot operators, among others.
Afunanya said at the meeting, the DSS boss made it clear to the stakeholders that “enough is enough”, saying “we made it clear that whatever the hurdles are, they must be resolved, adding that Nigerians have every right to access fuel.”
He said the DSS decided to intervene in the matter because it has the mandate to investigate economic sabotage, including detecting and preventing threats to national security.
He said though the agency cannot link the current fuel scarcity to economic sabotage, it was ready to rise to the occasion to curtail the situation.
According to him, the agency told all parties involved that DSS won’t continue to tolerate the incessant fuel scarcity, adding that all of them must go beyond their best to ensure adequate supply of petrol across the country.
Afunanya said NNPCL has agreed to sell fuel at the official ex-depot price to all marketers nationwide. NNPCL also disclosed that it has sufficient stock of product, about 1.9 billion litres for distribution across the country even until after the Yuletide period.
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