BREAKING NEWS, Oil & Gas
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As part of the efforts to end fuel scarcity in the country and stop illegal sale of fuel along the road, the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has deployed its official to petrol stations to arrest those engaged in sharp practices
Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu, commandant general of Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has ordered a 24-hour surveillance of petrol stations by the officers of the corps to curtail the activities of black market operators and others benefiting from the current fuel scarcity in the country.
This means that officials of the NSCDC would be assigned to petrol stations across the country in order to carry out the directive.
Gana gave this order immediately after he met with Ibe Kachikwu, minister of State for Petroleum Resources, at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, office in Abuja on last Thursday.
The sale petrol by the roadside is against the law and the NSCDC boss has directed his men to arrest and prosecute offenders. He, therefore ordered the deployment of officers of the Corps to petrol stations across the country to help check sharp practices and ensure the smooth supply and distribution of the product.
Briefing Journalists on the development, the commandant general said that before the latest direct NSCDC had carried out 24-hour surveillance on oil terminals where crude oil is being loaded and on the rigs where drilling operations take place.
He said 280 officers have been deployed in Abuja metropolis to ease the operations of NNPC and also officers of the corps have also been deployed in the same vein in states like, Delta, Edo, Lagos, Ogun, Osun and Oyo state.
Kachikwu, during the meeting, stated that the involvement of NSCDC operatives became necessary following the need to ensure total eradication of queues from fuel stations across the country and for effective monitoring of the distribution system.
“This calls for effective monitoring of the supply system, especially at the end points, to ascertain that what is trucked out from the depots is delivered at the designated fuel stations and dispensed to the public in the most efficient manner. We need you to be out there to help achieve this; we can’t be at ease while Nigerians are going through so much pain to get fuel,” he said.
He called on the officers deployed for monitoring duties to be vigilant and ensure that all the petrol designated for their respective stations is delivered and dispensed to members of the public in a most efficient manner.
— Apr. 4, 2016 @ 12 : 30 GMT
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