The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, Benue State office, has assured people of Benue, Nasarawa, Taraba, Kogi and part of Plateau of adequate fuel supply this week.
The Authority’s Operations Controller, Mr. Gabriel Adagba, gave this assurance in his office in Makurdi, when he received members of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigerian Union of Journalist, Benue Council, on Tuesday.
While he explained that the current situation was not a distribution problem but a supply problem which came about as a result of the importation of an offspec product, the DPR boss said as at Monday, 107 trucks of fuel were received at the Makurdi depot as against only 45 trucks last week.
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While commending the personnel of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in helping to tackle road side black marketers, Adagba, however, noted that the new trend of fuel racketeering is that the black marketers get their supply from motorists and motorcyclists.
“We discovered that most of them don’t get their supplies from the fuel stations but from motorists and motorcyclists who take the pain to queue to buy fuel and then go to a corner and discharge same to black marketers.”
The Operations Controller also assured that the issue of bad fuel had already been resolved in Benue as the only two cases involving one company was immediately discovered and withdrawn.
