A
severe fuel scarcity has hit major cities in Nigeria, with Lagos and Abuja
being the worst affected.
Most
petrol stations in Lagos have closed shop due to unavailability of the product
but this has not stopped car owners from parking their vehicles on queues in
hopes of purchasing the product.
A
driver in Lagos said that he was forced to purchase 10
litres of fuel from the black market at N4,000 after waiting endlessly at
petrol stations.
“There
is no fuel in Lagos. All the stations are closed,” the obviously frustrated driver said.
“Even
the 10 litres I got won’t be enough for the work I have to do so I’ll need to
buy more,” he
added.
Car
owners in Abuja are also facing the same fate as some of them are forced to
purchase fuel from the black market at a minimum of N200 per litre.
The
scarcity comes barely a day after the end of the deadline given to the Federal
Government by the Major Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) to pay the
N256.2 billion debt owed them.
MOMAN
had threatened to stop importing fuel if the debt was not paid.
Meanwhile,
the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has blamed
the scarcity on the strike action embarked upon by the members of National
Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO) and the Petroleum
Tanker Drivers (PTD) due to debts owed them by the marketers.
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