Also to appear before the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream) are regulatory bodies, marketers and other stakeholders in the petroleum sector. According to Mafara, those to be grilled include the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association, Major Marketers Association of Nigeria, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, and the Department of Petroleum Resources. That is why the Senate spoke resoundingly before going on recess when they talked about taking $1bn (from the Excess Crude Account) to fight insurgency. Asuquo stated that other stations were sealed off for hoarding, diversion and absconding upon sighting officials of the DPR. “The NNPC has maintained supply but let us watch what will happen in the next two, three days about the queues.

Source: Punch January 04, 2018 02:15 UTC