Petrol scarcity has continued to bite harder despite the claims by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that no less than 300 million litres of the product was imported into the country.
In its last weekly national PMS evacuation report for February 21 to 26, 2022, seen on Sunday, NNPC revealed also that it evacuated an additional 381.88 million litres of petrol during the period.
Last week, NNPC also stated that it distributed a total of 387.59 million litres of PMS from February 14 to 20, 2022, in its bid to bridge the petrol supply gap.
Despite the reported importations however, the queues for petrol in filling stations that dispensed the commodity on Sunday remained unchanged as witnessed in many parts of the country.
The endless queues formed by motorists were seen at all filling stations but major and private owned.
According to NNPC, 80% of all the evacuation took place at the top 20 high loading depots, while 20 per cent of the remaining evacuation took place at the other depots.
The top 20 high load-out depots include Pinnacle-Lekki with 43.259 million litres; Aiteo, 22.462 million litres; A.A. Rano, 22.43 million litres; A.Y.M Shafa, 19.232 million litres; and Prudent, 17.788 million litres, among others.
In the next category, the firms that were involved in PMS load-out, according to NNPC, include Gonzaga, 8.23 million litres; Bova’s Bulk-Ibafon, 7.761 million litres; PPMC Mosimi, 7.15 million litres; and First Royal, 4.825 million litres; among others.
Nigerians are, however, hopeful that the scarcity of petrol will subside in the nee few days as domestic and corporate activities have become too expensive and in some cases unbearable.
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