NNPC Has Stocked Over 2 billion Litres Of Petroleum towards The End of the year festive Movement

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
(NNPC) has a stock of over two billion litres of
petrol to ensure a hitch-free end-of-year
movement of motorists.
Speaking at the weekend after his investiture as
Honourary Special Marshal by the Federal Road
Safety Corps (FRSC), the Group Managing
Director of the Corporation, Maikanti Baru,
assured that adequate measures were in place
to ensure that motorists have unimpeded
access to fuel ahead of the forthcoming end-of-
year festivities.
Mr. Baru said provision of adequate petroleum
products would not only ease transportation but
would also make our roads safer for motorists,
just as other consumers too would have no
need to hoard highly inflammable products in
jerry cans, among others, which may pose as
safety challenge to them.
“As we speak, NNPC has over two billion litres of
petrol and we want to sustain this level from now
on till the end of the year and beyond. This
volume would give the country product sufficiency
of about 60 days, well above the standard 30 days
sufficiency threshold,’’ Mr. Baru said.
Describing his investiture as an eloquent
testament of the Corporation’s long standing
commitment to road safety and support for the
FRSC, the GMD said NNPC would remain
unwavering in its backing of the FRSC towards
achieving its mandate of making our roads safer
for motorists and other road users.
In her remarks, Deputy Corps Marshal in charge
of Operations, Ojeme Ewhrudjakpor, who
presided over the ceremony, thanked the
Corporation for its commitment to road safety.
Mrs. Ewhrudjakpor said that road safety was the
responsibility of everyone from motorists to
regular road safety officers including special
marshals, adding that all have a duty to ensure
that the safety target which involves limiting the
number of casualties on our road is achieved.
NDU UGHAMADU
Group General Manager
Group Public Affairs Division
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Abuja
17th October, 2017.