By: Celestine Ukah
Fuel scarcity bites hard in Warri and its environs Tuesday November 8, 2022 as both independent and Major petroleum marketers refused dispensing products to customers willing to buy the PMS product.
Commuters groan over the situation as commercial bus drivers hiked transport fares due to the artificial scarcity of the product in the Delta Delta State commercial city centre, bus drivers that ply the popular NPA Expressway said the marketers have connived with each other not to be selling at the approved pump price as at this afternoon, while filling this report fuel product is being sold at N230 to N240 at the fuel petrol stations dispensing to customers buying .
Further investigation carried out revealed that the major importer of PMS to the country NNPC Limited recently brought product it was allegedly diverted more to the Northern part of Nigeria in order to mitigate the scarcity experienced there during the flood lockdown of kogi to access the North, other investigation show that WRPC Depot of the NNPC in Warri is said to have some petroleum products, trucks lined up set to load to flood the state and other areas where artificial scarcity is observed .
Areanewsng.com can authoritatively report that prices of goods and domestic consumption is being threatened due to the fuel scarcity if not addressed urgently things to skyrocket as the economy of the city is not in boom after the major oil and gas company shell and its services company pull out of the city.
