The Chief Executive, NMDPRA, Farouk Ahmed, said this on Thursday in Abuja when delegates from the National Association of Road Transport Owners paid a courtesy call on the Management Team of the Authority.
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The Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Mele Kyari, made the pronouncement while briefing newsmen after a closed-door meeting with the National Association of Road Transport Owners and Petroleum Tanker Drivers on Monday in Abuja
Trailers parked indiscriminately over a long stretch of the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway have been causing massive traffic gridlock on the road for several days now
Oyeyemi at the meeting stated the need for the harmonization of data among the FRSC, NNPC, Petroleum Equalization Fund and Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency and also to ensure Tank Farms compliance to minimum safety standards are achieved
The National President of the National Association of Road Transport Owners, Mallam Kashim Ibrahim, said the 10 days ultimatum given to all tanker drivers to deliver petroleum products by the Petroleum Equalisation Fund to points of destination cannot be actualised.
Though the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation blamed it on the strike action embarked upon by members of the National Association of Road Transport Owners and the Petroleum Tanker Drivers, the scarcity of petrol is coming at the expiration of the three days ultimatum given by the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria to the Federal Government