Marketers, NNPC trade blames as fuel crisis worsens – Vanguard
November 17, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi
Long fuel queues have hit Lagos State and other major cities across the country, as the problem of logistics hinders efforts by the Pipeline Products and Marketing Company, PPMC, a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to discharge products from its imported cargoes for distribution to marketers.
However, major and independent marketers, who spoke to Vanguard, punctured the claim by NNPC that it has products on the high sea.
According to them, such claim does not translate to products availability at the filling stations.
One of the independent marketers also said that his company loaded only 30 trucks yesterday as against an average of 80 trucks it used to load when products were available.
