Over 1,000 petrol tankers were
monitored loading fuel on Thursday, April, 7, in Apapa, Lagos
State, as the major depots offer 24 hours service, NAN reports.
Report said the vehicles were sighted
at Capital
Oil, Folawiyi,NIPCO, Aiteo, Mobil, Rahamaniya, De
Jones and Integrated Oil loading
points.
The Minister of State for Petroleum
Resources, Dr Ibe Kachickwu, had on March 29, assured Nigerians
that the lingering petrol scarcity would be over by today, April 7.
Although, the situation in Lagos as
today was no different from the previous days as long queues were still
recorded at filling stations across the state with many of the stations still
selling way higher than official pump price.
According to NAN findings, some of the
depot owners who preferred anonymity disclosed that workers have been compelled
to do 24-hour massive loading of petrol since April 5 to ease the scarcity.
The depot owners said that the deadline
set by the Minister for fuel queues to disappear today (April 7) might not be
achieved.
According to them, most trucks that
load in Apapa do not only serve Lagos metropolis but also travel to other
states in the south-west.
“We are faced with logistics challenges in loading some of the
trucks because some of the marketers who are in joint vessel allocation delay
in clearing their lines.
“The vessel which was meant for three marketers takes longer time
to discharge due to some hitches of discharging into their storage facilities.
“Another challenge has to do with clearance from the Navy, PPPRA,
DPR and other agencies in charge of inspection to ascertain marketers who are
going to be paid on subsidy schemes.
“It is easier to discharge to a marketer than joint allocation of
many marketers. This is another cause of delay in loading of the product,’’ they said.
NAN also reports that as at 10 a.m. on
Thursday, long queues of tankers dotted the service lanes of Apapa Oshodi
expressway, from Cele bus stop to Ibafon jetty.
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