Residents and motorists in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and its environment have continued to lament the hardship being experienced as the scarcity of ‘fuel’ Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), known as petrol worsened.
A Media reporter who monitored the filling stations on Friday reported that long queues of vehicles were seen at all the stations that have the petroleum product.
Those that have the product were dispensing at N195 per litre while the NNPC Limited Retail stations were dispensing N194 per liter.
A good number of the filling stations were seen without the product.
In the city center, the NNPC Limited Mega station by Church Gate and NNPC Limited retail station at Zone 1, Wuse were seen with long queues of vehicles.
Conoil and Total Energies filling stations, opposite NNPC Limited Towers also had long queues of vehicles.
The situation is worse along the Nyanya-Keffi highway, as many filling stations did not have petroleum products,
while along Lugbe, Airport road, queues were seen at Danmana, NIPCO, Shafa, and AA Rano filling stations.
Many motorists expressed dissatisfaction over the non-availability of the product, adding that the situation was frustrating and demoralizing as they normally stay over the next day to get fuel.
“I usually queue till midnight and the next day to get fuel. If not, my taxi business will suffer a loss,” Mr. Ismaila Jimoh said.
Mr. Sadiq Yakubu said though he was in the Coupon queue, to be charged through his credit card had not been easy, calling on the Federal Government to hasten up with a laudable decision to resolve it.
Mr. Peter Okpe, Manager, of Total Energies station who appealed to the government to find a lasting solution to the crisis said though it always served motorists for 24 hours its queues had become too long because enough product was not in circulation.
Media reports that President Muhammadu Buhari recently approved the constitution of a 14-man Steering Committee on Petroleum Products Supply and Distribution management to find lasting solutions to disruptions in the supply and distribution of petroleum products.
Other terms of reference of the committee are to ensure national strategic stock management, visibility on the NNPC Limited refineries rehabilitation program, and ensure end-end tracking of petroleum products, especially fuel to ascertain daily national consumption and eliminate smuggling.
