Fuel queue at a filling station at Central Business District Area, Garki, Abuja. PHOTO: NAN•‘Why situation persists’
• Kwara monitors sale of petrol
“The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and other relevant government agencies should go out to enforce sale of fuel at filling stations that are hoarding the product. Virtually all stations have petrol but they are not ready to sell so as to exploit the people.”With these words yesterday, the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) offered solution to the lingering scarcity in the country.
The union which denied being responsible for scarcity claimed the situation started two weeks before it issued a seven-day strike ultimatum on December 7, on the grounds of unfair labour practices by some oil and gas firms.In a statement, the union’s media officer, Babatunde Oke, said Nigerians should not blame the oil workers for the scarcity as the strike notice only lasted for 14 hours before it was suspended.
How to end lingering fuel scarcity – PENGASSAN
