The Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation has said that there is no plan to increase the pump price of fuel in January 2013.
The General Manager, Public Affairs of the NNPC, Fidel Pepple, stated this on Sunday in Abuja when he spoke with newsmen.
Several marketers, especially in Lagos and Abuja, have been discovered to be hoarding fuel in anticipation of a price increase on January 1, 2013.
President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan had on January 1, 2012 approved an increase in the pump price of petrol.
But Pepple said on Sunday that this would not happen in 2013.
He equally stated that the broken pipelines in Lagos and Ogun States have been fixed.
He said: “I can affirm to you that our engineers from the Pipelines and Products Marketing Company Limited have finally fixed the Ije-Ododo pipeline that was ruptured last Monday by pipeline vandals.
“Going forward, the good news for Nigerians is that we have resumed pumping petroleum products through the pipeline and system 2B is equally working after the restoration of the pipeline.”
Pepple said that that the NNPC was working hard to check fuel scarcity and eliminate queues at filling stations across the country.
He attributed the long queues at filling stations to the activities of vandals and the closure of some filling stations due to the Christmas holidays.
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