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NNPC releases 1,500 trucks of kerosene to Cross River

By BusinessNews Staff on January 30, 2015

It has been disclosed that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has released 1,500 trucks of kerosene for distribution to the public.

Media Officer of the Port Harcourt Refinery Petroleum Company Limited, Mr. Ikenna Okpani, disclosed this on Wednesday during the flag-off of the ‘kero-correct’ campaign in Calabar, Cross River State.

Leading the team of the kero-correct campaign in the state, Okpani said the campaign was to ensure the availability of kerosene at the government approved price of N50.00 per litre.

Okpani said: “Approximately, we have released 1,500 trucks (40, 000 litres per truck) of kerosene for the purpose of this campaign which will last for three months.

“These trucks of kerosene would be distributed to the 37 NNPC mega stations, 12 floating mega stations and 524 NNPC affiliate stations across the country over the period of three months.”

He said the campaign was an initiative of the federal government to get kerosene to consumers at government approved price of N50.00 per litre.

“We have discovered over time that a lot of Nigerians are not getting this product at the approved price across the country.

“And the federal government, in its wisdom through the NNPC, has decided to bring this product to consumers in the country,” Okpani said.

He said his team has the mandate of enforcing certain regulations that would ensure availability of the products to every consumer at all selling points.

Speaking on the mode for distribution Okpani said: “Consumers are to queue for the products at every station; there are also restricted from buying above 25 litres of the products at a time.

“Anyone who prefers to buy additional number of litres beyond the first 25 litres would have to go to the queue again after the first purchase.

“This development is to check racketeering of the product and to ensure that the product gets to everyone.”

Okpani stated that the NNPC was collaborating with an organisation to ensure that the price of the product is sold at N50 per litre to consumers.

Also speaking, the state leader of the kero-correct, Ms. Comfort Effiong, said the initiative was aimed at getting the product to the final consumers at the approved government price.

Effiong stated that the organisation would be in the state to ensure that the price of a litre of kerosene is sold for N50 per litre and that the product gets to the people in the rural areas of the state.

[ThisDay]

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