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Friday 27 November 2015

NNPC blames fuel scarcity on vandals, corrupt oil marketers

The NNPC in a statement to the Senate Committee on Petroleum Downstream in Abuja, said that the Senate had given it a two-week ultimatum to end the fuel scarcity.
The Senate Committee, Managing Director of the Pipelines and Product Marketing Company, PPMC, a subsidiary of the NNPC, Mrs. Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue, stated that  Nigeria has lost a total of 531 million litres of petrol valued at over N50 billion to pipeline vandals between January and September, 2015, at the System 2B Pipeline network which covers from the Atlas Cove in Lagos to Ilorin.


Nnamdi-Ogbue said that the continuous vandalization of pipeline at the Arepo to Mosimi axis of the pipeline artery, have made the supply of petroleum products to retail outlets difficult.

She said PPMC is doing everything they can to make sure they supply truck-out from depots in Lagos, Oghara and recently Calabar.

She, however, noted that the efforts to supply enough fuel across the country are being hampered by the activities of some unscrupulous marketers involved in hoarding and diverting of petroleum products for sale in black markets across the country.
She said:
“We view this as a distortion to the economy and we have invited the DSS and the EFCC to take action.”


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25 comments:

  1. NNPC are right. Those marketers nd vandals criminals days are numbered in Nigeria.

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  2. APC n Buhari are confused. They always look for where to blame of their incompetence. Una never see anything . valentino_nero@yahoo.com

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  3. I beg they shld do smthing to resolve this scarcity issue, xmas is around the corner pple needs to travel.

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  4. Enough of the blames, dey should proffer a solution ASAP. Linda take note!

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  5. Enough of the blames, dey should proffer a solution ASAP. Linda take note!

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  6. CHANGE ! Always giving one excuse or the other. Thank God they didn't say is Goodluck Ebere Jonathan.

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  7. This govt, always looking for who to blame.
    ~D great anonymous!

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  8. they should stop this blame game and sort the mess out. is it today the know the system is corrupt.

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  9. Why is Nigeria like this? A country with few or no patriots? A country with people who are swift to sabotage the system? A country with people who can mindlessly kill others (even their own family) for selfish monitary gains? Who are the accupants of Nigeria, humans or demons?
    Surely Nigeria is awashed with people with traits described above, and if not checked, it will continue to degenerate on a downward spiral. Granted, poverty level in Nigeria is high, but we do not rank the highest in the world. Even the poorest countries in the world do not have their citizens engaging in such mindless and wicked sabotage of the common wellbeing of the entire citizenry. We are in democracy, but democracy seems to be a booby trap for countries with grossly indisciplined citizenry like Nigeria. Where softer approach fails, the only language the indiscipline understand is force. Nigeria unfortunately has never been under a disciplined governance for even half a decade stretch since her independence from colonial rule. The country has grown from infancy to adulthood wild like a vegabond child without parental control,discipline and nurture. The is the simplest reason why the word "discipline" stirs discomfort to an average Nigerian. Indiscipline is the major root cause of the endermic corruption in Nigeria today, and without a retrace of our steps on the path of discipline, the fight against corruption will end up in sheer rhetorics.

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    1. Our problem is very simple....tribalism. till we tackle it ..this will continue. Igbos and Hausas for eg...never come across two more opposite set of people in my life. They can't ever be more different...yet they share a country.

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    2. Our problem is very simple....tribalism. till we tackle it ..this will continue. Igbos and Hausas for eg...never come across two more opposite set of people in my life. They can't ever be more different...yet they share a country.

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  10. Sorry ooo....but please fix it. Jona complained about it enough and we are tired of hearing it too. Biko do the needful that u were elected to do.

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  11. a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said...
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    Am very sure that something can be done about it so nobi excuse...
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    ***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***

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  12. NNPC we are tired of all these incessant excuses pls. Just fix the damn problem!!!!! Telling us all these stories everytime does not change the fact the fuel queues are still there. Tell is what you are doing to get things back to normal!!

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  13. You guys had better stop all these blame games already and come together to help this country progress. After all Akon has already decided to take the blames.



    Stop acting like Robots!



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  14. This is laughable, blame blame blame everywhere. Even Buhari is still baming. GEJ never blamed anyone oo. He did his best. This people are so shameless. 2019 is around the corner, Nigerians will speak with their votes

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  15. Always finding excuses and who to blame!

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  16. Shut up useless woman..na to dey strt breaking of pipelines?...u think dat u a ruling a bunch of fools abi?...pls giv bak marketers der ticket to import oil and gas and stop sayin nonsense here...buhari is an illiterate and will neva learn

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  17. Comment frm ROYAL PRIESTHOOD (royalpriesthood007@gmail.com)27 November 2015 at 09:53

    Biko!

    They better tak action and spare us all dis excuse's thereof after all we voted to hav CHANGE in govt.

    Comment frm ROYAL PRIESTHOOD (royalpriesthood007@gmail.com)

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  18. Blame dz, blame dat...be responsible as a govt not power hussler!!!

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  19. I KEEP ASKING. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE I50 MILITARY MEN THAT DISAPPEARED IN MAIDUGURI? HEARD THERE WERE BURNT TO ASHES BY BH AND THE ARMY AND THE GOVERNMENT KEEP HIDING IT FROM THE MASSES. THESE ARE PEOPLES HUSBANDS, FATHERS AND SONS.

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  20. Music to our Ear... TThey will rather blame everyone but themselves

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