NUPENG blames DPR for fresh fuel scarcity

NUPENG has blamed DPR for looming fuel scarcity in Rivers state – It said the agency failed to monitor petroleum product marketers activities which gave rise to hoarding and scarcity.

NUPENG called on DPR officials to come out from cozy office to arrest the situation . The non-availability of petroleum products in most filling stations in Port Harcourt is now a serious concern for commercial bus operators. Nigerian oil output rises 252,800bpd in January Some of the black market petroleum dealers said that they now sell a litre of petrol at one hundred and twenty naira as against the official pump price of N86.50.

Meanwhile the Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, Port Harcourt zone has accused the Department of Petroleum Resources ( DPR) in the zone of failing to monitor activities of depot owners and Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria.

The NUPENG zonal chairman, Godwin Eruba, said the inability of the DPR to do the job by monitoring depot owners who refuse to sell their products described the current fuel scarcity in Rivers state as sabotage. “NUPENG is not on strike and we do not intend be on strike.

DPR officials should leave the comfort of their offices and monitor the depot owners who are sabotaging the efforts of the federal government to reduce the pump price of petrol to N86 and N86.50 per litre” READ