The Premium Motor Spirit (petrol), has stir up a long queue at filling stations in Lagos and Ogun states, as well as other South-Westerns states.
However, it has been gathered that queues are not yet seen in Abuja and other Northern states.
Oshodi-Ojodu Berger Expressway and some sections of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway are affected, as vehicles that waited to purchase petrol stretched into the expressway, slowing down movement on the service lane, as it was learnt that depots in Lagos were gradually running dry of petrol.
Meanwhile, Conoil, Enyo and Oando at Berger in Lagos, had no product to dispense and a branch of station located in Berger axis was locked.
In Ogun State, others such as Worldoil, Fatgbems and Quest shut their outlets.
North-West filling station had the longest queue, as it dispensed petrol at N568/litre. Others such as Eterna – N568/litre; NNPCL – N568/litre; TotalEnergies – N570/litre; and Mobil – N570/litre had shorter queues.
The Chairman, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Satellite Depot, Akin Akinrinade reported that the depot had not loaded products in the last three weeks, that even the NNPCL Retail depot is currently operating skeletal dispatching of products.
According to him, the issue has been with the pipeline vandalism which we raised an alarm over since July. Satellite depot has not loaded any product in the last three weeks, and whenever there is a problem here, it is going to affect Lagos and the whole of South-West.
He further stated, NNPCL Retail has 21 depots across the country, nine in the North, and 12 in the South.
However, “This continuous vandalism is a setback to the effort of IPMAN and NNPCL to ensure uninterrupted supply of petrol to Lagos and the entire South-West region of Nigeria.”
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