NNPC Boosts Fuel Supply In Rivers

The Rivers State Petroleum Monitoring Taskforce says it has secured a 14-tonne barge of fuel to ease the current fuel scarcity in the state.

The vice chairman of the taskforce, Mr Awosike Oduah disclosed this at the weekend shortly after the taskforce met with officials of the Petroleum Products Monitoring Marketing Committee (PPPMC) and the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) over the current fuel scarcity in the state. Oduah told The Tide that the barge of fuel was an intervention measure by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to check the deteriorating fuel scarcity in the state.

He said the product would arrive in Rivers State by Monday (today) to reduce the long queues of vehicles at filling stations in Port Harcourt and its environs.

“We have a meeting with the IPMAN chairman and the Area Manager of the Port Harcourt Refinery Company (PHRC), and we have agreed that with the little product they have, 14 tankers should be given to Rivers State by Monday (today) and by Tuesday, we will have more than 50 to 60 trucks. We are really making a good move to ensure that the queues in Port Harcourt will, before the end of Thursday disappear,” Oduah said.

Meanwhile, the head of operations of the Rivers State Petroleum Products Monitoring Taskforce, Mr Hycinth Nwiye has said that the taskforce impounded a truck suspected to be conveying adulterated petroleum product at Akpajo in Eleme Local Government of the state.

Said he, “The taskforce is doing everything possible to ensure that all petroleum products are available in the state, and to ensure that consumers do not go buying adulterated products which will affect their cars. We intercepted a truck, and we have given it to the police for investigation.

Shedie Okpara