Marketers hoarding and diverting petroleum products may soon face the law as the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) plans to engage the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Economic and the Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to tackle the menace.
The move, NNPC said, is meant to assist in the monitoring of fuel distribution to retail outlets.
NNPC’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ohi Alegbe,in a statement yesterday, quoted the Managing Director, Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, Mrs. Esther
Nnamdi-Ogbue, as saying that the DSS and EFCC agents had been mobilised to arrest any marketer involved in sabotaging efforts of the Federal Government in making petroleum products available to motorists.
Nnamdi-Ogbue, as saying that the DSS and EFCC agents had been mobilised to arrest any marketer involved in sabotaging efforts of the Federal Government in making petroleum products available to motorists.
“We have invited the EFCC and DSS to join us in monitoring the movement of petroleum products and they have our mandate to sanction any errant marketer. Enough is enough,” Mrs. Nnamdi- Ogbue said.
She urged motorists to desist from panic buying, assuring them that there were sufficient petroleum products to satisfy local consumption.
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