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Fuel Scarcity: Oil Marketers Urge Nigerians To Brace For Petrol At Market Price
The President of the Petroleum Products Retail Outlets Owners Association of Nigeria, PETROAN, Billy Gilly-Harry has called on Nigerians to brace up for a higher price of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, in days to come.
He made this call on Tuesday while speaking as a guest on Channels Television’s Morning Brief, saying that prices would henceforth be sold at the current market prices.
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According to him, current prices of petrol at around N600 per litre may no longer be possible, as the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited battles to keep the country wet with products.
His stance is coming as the NNPCL recently agreed to be in debt of over $60bn to PMS suppliers.
Petrol currently sells for around N950 and above N1000 per litre in filling stations not owned by the NNPCL due to the scarcity.
“We have been shouting that they (NNPC) has been selling products at ₦590 per litre. Who is bleeding? Somebody is bleeding and we need to tell what exactly is going on, we cannot play politics with everything.
“For me, what I will say is to encourage Nigerians to buy petroleum products at the price that the market forces will determine. However, we are fully aware that fuel subsidies of different kinds of products across the world, and oil and gas are a natural blessing for Nigerians.
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“And naturally, we are expecting a subsidy to be paid for that. And I will have to look at the advantages of subsidising just PMS when we have health challenges and other challenges.
“It is a great effort by the NNPC to come out to say it is in debt. And this is what we have advised a very long time ago, that anything that needs to be done in this sector should be done transparently so that people don’t guess and get into panic,” he said.
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