NNPC, DPR dispense 57,000 litres free to motorists

A group of authorities from Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and security specialists on Thursday apportioned 57,000 liters of fuel free to drivers. 

Mr Umar Ajiya, the Managing Director, Nigerian Product Marketing Company, NPMC, otherwise called PPMC, had on Dec. 13, cautioned illicit profiteers to cease or face losing their products.

It was reported that the group, which was on its fifth day of observing, got more info from unknown Nigerians and followed through on its guarantee to give out petroleum free from any filling station that sold over the N145 affirmed top. 

The main station went by the group on Thursday was Mcmanakai Global Services in Bassa, a town in Abuja air terminal, which had 39,000 liters of oil, while the

handlers of the second station departed suddenly when they learnt of the nearness of the group.

The group likewise went by a third oil station additionally in Bassa, FCT, where it fixed Enesi Petroleum on the grounds that the office was selling a mixture of petrol and kerosene to clueless drivers. 

It had 9,750 liters of petrol and 4,750 liters of kerosene.

Another anonymous filling station in Soka, FCT, which was offering at N240, had 18,000 liters of oil that was apportioned allowed to drivers on line. 

At Mcmanakai petroleum station, the NNPC Group Managing Director, Dr Maikanti Baru, told newsmen that "DPR and Civil Defense distinguished this station on Wednesday as an illicit, unregistered station. 

"The station has items and is offering over the 145 top. DPR prevented the supervisors from offering at that rate on Wednesday however the handlers continued offering at N245 today (Thursday). 

"Along these lines, a similar discipline we allotted to different stations would be done here and somewhere else observed to do same. 

He guaranteed that trucks of petroleum coming into Abuja and different urban communities had been expanded to guarantee that with 24-hour operations, the lines vanished by end of the week. 

The Abuja Zonal Operations Controller of DPR, Mr Mohammed Abba, told newsmen, that "we got data about illicit exercises of oil stations from great Samaritans, else we may not know the presence of some of these filling stations.