The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC has blamed the scarcity of fuel across the nation on continuous rainfall.
Dapo Sefun – NNPCL’s vice-president (downstream), who disclosed this in a statement in Abuja said fuel queues have resurfaced in filling stations across the country, because of the rains and thunderstorms which have made it difficult to discharge and evacuate Petroleum products.
He said,“We’ll like to apologise to Nigerians for the queues we’ve been seeing springing up. A number of the causes are outside of our control but we’ll do our best to manage. We do not like to make excuses,” “For example, since the rains began, the Estragos channel has been difficult to navigate through. We have vessel after vessel going around there because of siltation, and that has really hindered our ability to bring petroleum products, particularly PMS, up country.”
“We also understand that with the rains also, situations where to discharge petroleum products where there is lightning, thunderstorms, you have to suspend, not just the discharge of petroleum products onshore but also, the evacuation from the tankers. We’ve had situations that have occurred in recent times.
