NNPC pleads for calm as fuel queues surface in FCT, others

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Petrol queues surfaced in parts of Abuja and neighbouring states of Nasarawa and Niger on Monday evening and intensified on Tuesday. Motorists besieged the few filling stations that dispensed petrol, forming long queues, while many other outlets were locked.

Most filling stations in the satellite towns of Abuja such as Kubwa, Bwari, Gwarimpa were shut as dealers said they had no product when our correspondent visited the outlets on Tuesday morning.

The NNPC filling station on Arab Road in Kubwa, did not dispense product on Monday evening till Tuesday morning.

A Conoil filling station on the Zuba-Kubwa expressway had long queues of motorists who parked within and outside the outlet in a bid to purchase petrol.

Most filling stations on the Zuba-Kaduna expressway as well as many others in the Mararaba end of Nasarawa were not also dispensing petrol on Tuesday.

Similarly, in the Central Business District of Abuja, many outlets were locked.

Of the two filling stations in front of the headquarters of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, only one, Conoil, dispensed petrol on Tuesday morning, but it had long queues of motorists.

The entrance of the other filling station, Total, was shut to motorists. Filling station attendants here said they had no stock on Tuesday morning.

Oil marketers told our correspondent that the attack on petrol tankers by angry protesters forced dealers to temporarily suspend the movement of petroleum products, a development which warranted disruptions in supply. Punch

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