Fuel Scarcity: Stop Issuing Empty Threats, Go After Cabal – PETROAN Tackles DSS

The Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria (PETROAN) has faulted the 48-hour ultimatum issued by the Department of State Services (DSS) that oil marketers make Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol available for Nigerians.

The Association said until the secret police and other security agencies go after the cartel operating among private depot owners who are hoarding the essential commodity, fuel scarcity and long queues will persist.

PETROAN Chairman, System 2E, Eastern Zone, Sunny Nkpe, made this known on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Monday.

“Let me make it categorically clear here: there is no amount of threat by DSS that is going to change anything. If it must change, they must start from the source; they should go to the private depot operators to find out where for now we are getting products from.

“Until the cartel or cabal in that area is handled or taken care of, we can never get any reduction or fairness in the distribution of the product,” Nkpe said.

He also lamented that there has not been a drop of petrol allocation to the Port Harcourt depot in the last six months.