Kerosene marketers lament over scarcity of product

Marketers of oil products in the country said non availability of the Household Kerosene (HHK) might affect the implementation of the new pump price.

The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency in January increased the HHK pump price from N50 to N83.

Some of the filling stations visited by a correspondent of the the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Abuja had no products for couple of months.

At NNPC Mega Station on Kubway Express Road, HHK was not available but Premium Motor Spirit was dispensed at the official price to customers.

One of the members of staff who preferred anonymity said that the station in the last three months had not sold HHK.

“Our major focus here is selling PMS; we have not sold kerosene since November last year.

“But we always sell at the approved price; the thing is that it is not always available.

Also, at NNPC station in Gwarinpa and Central Business Distric, NAN reported that the product was also not available.

Mr Johnson Ibe, a worker at the Central Business District, said that the station was yet to sell any product because of the repairs from the fire that gutted the station.

“We usually sell kerosene but you know that fire gutted this station few weeks ago; we are still undergoing repairs.

“By the time we finish the repairs, we will sell to our customers at the approved price as usual,’’ he said.

At MRS Mararaba station, NAN reported that at the notice board, the price was still registered as N50.

The supervisor of the station, who identified himself as Joseph, said that it no longer sold kerosene because the station would incur loss.