Marketers Accuse NNPC Of Products Diversion … Threaten to Expose Officials

Representative of Senator Shehu Sani, Alhaji Suleiman Ahmed (left), presenting 500kva transfomer to the District Head of Badarawa Majalisa Kwaru, Alhaji Abdulhameed Giwa in Kaduna, recently.

The Association of Mega
Filling Station Owners of Nigeria (AMFSON) has threatened to expose those sabotaging efforts to end fuel crisis across the nation.
AMFSON National Secretary, Kennth Nwachukwu who made the threat Friday  while addressing a press conference over the inability of members of the association to have access to fuel several months after depositing millions of naira to supply, said his members had in recent past resisted the urge to mention the saboteurs, especially after the Minister Challenged them  to mention names.
The AMFSON scribe further alleged that several trucks of fuel had been diverted into black markets by the said  saboteurs at the detriment of mega station owner and Nigerians in general.
He explained that it was in an effort to prevent  fuel scarcity that the immediate  past  government established mega affiliate stations and appeal to the  minister to address the plight of his members towards ending  fuel crisis.
The minister said we should mention names, but you know  Nigerians, when you come  out in public to mention the names of the saboteurs, they can go after you. So it is something we can do if it is possible to do it one-on-one with the minister.
“We can tell him. There is nothing to be feared because we  have  evidence of how fuel is being diverted to the black market. We have evidence  of everything we are saying about this fuel crisis”, he said.
Nwachukwu rather said, instead of mentioning names, they were giving the minister information that could enable government get to the root of the matter.
We cannot come out to the market place and say this person is a thief. We don’t do things like that. But if we are pushed to the wall and mention names, heads will roll at NNPC, he said.
He said one of the ways to end the crisis is for the minister to come down to the level of the attackers to discuss with them in order to get the whole truth, adding that if they supply fuel to the affiliate stations, there would be no scarcity again.
“The NNPC Retail takes the fuel meant for us to the black market and still end up spoiling our names as if we are the ones diverting the fuel that was  not delivered to us  but distributed some where else in our own names. This is corruption of the highest order.