Blame not Ptd for fuel scarcity "it is the fault of the Nnpc

The Petroleum Tankers Drivers (PTD) Branch of National
Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG)
has blamed the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC) for the fuel scarcity in some parts of the
country.
PTD National Chairman Comrade Salimon Akanni Oladiti,
who spoke in an interview with reporters in Ibadan, the
Oyo State capital, said oil marketers were not hoarding
fuel.
“We are not conniving with anybody to make Nigerians
suffer for fuel. For some time now, we have not been
able to load at NNPC depot in Apata, Ibadan and there is
no hope of loading in some other NNPC depots in the
Southwest.
“Government is responsible for this problem, because if
they bring enough oil into the country, we as distributors
we are ready to sell it out. It’s so sad that we are one of
the largest producers of oil, but we are still suffering
from scarcity,” he said
Oladiti added: “NNPC imports about 75 per cent of the oil
we are consuming in the country. The remaining 25
percentage is for major marketers. “What the government is trying to tackle still exist;
corruption is still in the oil industry. There is corruption
and bribery at the oil depots and you have to face this
hurdle before you can load your truck.”
He noted that government needs to find lasting solution
to incessant fuel scarcity, adding: “The common man in
the country is suffering.”
He urged the government to embark on aggressive
rehabilitations of roads and railway networks.