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The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu yesterday revealed that over 30 per cent of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) otherwise known as petrol is being diverted to neighbouring countries, including Chad and Cameroun.
Kachikwu, who spoke at a town hall meeting in Lagos yesterday, said about 400 Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) petrol trucks had been sent to Lagos but only about 250 offloaded their contents.
He said the petrol tankers were able to get away with this because the Petroleum Ministry cannot monitor their activities once they are loaded with fuel.
He, however, said the government was working towards curbing the menace by installing trackers on each truck and also by registering the depots and filling stations they are meant to supply – hence, if they fail to offload the quantity required, there will be a record of the anomaly.
Kachikwu empathised with Nigerians on the fuel scarcity situation which has lingered for months, stating that “everything that touches Nigerians touches me.”
“What we want to embark on is engaging only truckers which have trackers to make it easy for us to monitor the movement of product in the country.”
Kachikwu, who spoke at a town hall meeting in Lagos yesterday, said about 400 Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) petrol trucks had been sent to Lagos but only about 250 offloaded their contents.
He said the petrol tankers were able to get away with this because the Petroleum Ministry cannot monitor their activities once they are loaded with fuel.
He, however, said the government was working towards curbing the menace by installing trackers on each truck and also by registering the depots and filling stations they are meant to supply – hence, if they fail to offload the quantity required, there will be a record of the anomaly.
Kachikwu empathised with Nigerians on the fuel scarcity situation which has lingered for months, stating that “everything that touches Nigerians touches me.”
“What we want to embark on is engaging only truckers which have trackers to make it easy for us to monitor the movement of product in the country.”
