The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers has said its members are not involved in fuel diversion, as scarcity of the product persists in parts of the country.
The union, in a statement signed by its President, Dr. Igwe Achese, said its members had not stopped hauling petroleum products to their destinations from the depots.
Achese alleged that the persistent fuel scarcity was as a result of the connivance between the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and oil marketers, saying “they were collaborating to bring untold hardship to Nigerians.”
He pointed out that the union had envisaged the prolonged scarcity of petroleum products and had called for a stakeholders’ meeting of all bodies to brainstorm and proffer solutions on the challenge, but its efforts were futile.
The NUPENG president explained that all efforts to convince the Federal Government and the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, to organise a round-table discussion to proffer solutions to the scourge were met with a brick wall.
Achese said a meeting should be convened to address the issue of fuel scarcity.
Kachikwu had on Monday ordered the deployment of employees of the NNPC in filling stations across the country for effective monitoring of the distribution system, saying the move was in a bid to ensure the total eradication of queues from fuel stations across the country.
Kachikwu was quoted to have said at an emergency meeting with senior staff of the corporation that although there were a number of challenges in the supply and distribution system that hampered efficient distribution of products across the country, it was time for the NNPC to rise above the challenges by ensuring that the special intervention supplies were not diverted or hoarded.
The minister had said, “This calls for effective monitoring of the supply system, especially at the end points, to ascertain that what is trucked out from the depots is delivered at the designated fuel stations and dispensed to the public in the most efficient manner.”
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