The Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority has assured that prevailing fuel scarcity will soon be a thing of the past in the country.
The agency gave this assurance on Friday in Delta State, according to The Nation.
The NMDPRA Coordinator in Delta, Victor Ohwodiasa, declared this when he led a team of the regulatory authority on an unscheduled inspection visit to some petroleum depots at Ifiekporo, on Thursday evening and Friday in Delta.
Ohwodiasa said the essence of the visit was to ensure that depots with petrol dispensed to licenced retail outlets, eliminating middle men and also avoiding diversion.
He, then, assured that the regulatory authority would ensure that the vessels discharge products as quickly as possible.
He said, “We will ensure that the depots receiving these products lift them out to the end users.
“By the time we have all the depots wet with PMS and they are lifting regularly, the looming scarcity we are experiencing will disappear.”
“Once we get our daily manifest, we send our men out to make sure that those trucks get to their actual locations.
“There might be one or two infractions; we have apprehended about two persons for product diversion and they were made to face the full wrath of the law.
“As a regulatory authority, saddled with the responsibility of regulating the Midstream and Downstream of the Oil and Gas sector in Nigeria, we will continue to do what we need to do.
“This is to ensure that the products are available and adequately and fairly distributed within Delta and neighboring states.”
He, therefore, urged people to stop panic buying, assuring that the Federal Government was doing everything within its power to make petroleum products available in the country, especially, during the forthcoming Yuletide season and beyond.
