Kaduna curfew: Kerosene scarcity hits Abuja

The Abuja NNPC mega station, on Thursday, said it had no kerosene to sell because of the curfew imposed in Kaduna State following the recent attacks on churches and reprisals by Christian youths.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reported that the station has had no stock of the product for almost a week now.
The development has led to the absence of long queues of consumers who throng the station daily to buy the product.

Mr Stephen Yohanna, the operations supervisor at the filling station, described the situation as “unfortunate” but assured the public that loading of the product would soon resume now that the curfew hours had been extended.

``We have run out of stock of kerosene and that is why we are not dispensing at the moment.

``We get our supply of the product from Kaduna but the crisis there has hampered our operations here,’’ Yohanna said.

He reiterated the commitment of te management of the filling station to ensuring the availability of kerosene always.

Mr Baba Shettima, sales representative at the station, said that they were expecting two trucks of kerosene on Thursday.

``We are expecting two trucks of kerosene from Kaduna, by God's grace; we will commence the sale of kerosene to our buyers by tomorrow,’’ Shettima said.

Other filling stations visited by NAN correspondents did not have the product as well.

Mr Samson Olajumoke, sales supervisor at AP filling station, Central, corroborated the fact that the curfew in Kaduna had affected supplies.

``We get our supplies from Lagos, but they have not been able to supply us with the product because they themselves cannot get it due to the crisis situation in Kaduna.

``We are expecting to start getting it by next week; when we get the product, we will start selling immediately,” he said.

According to NAN, consumers of the product have continued to lament the non availability of the product.

Mrs Taiwo Ajala, a trader, said that the lack of kerosene at the stations was already taking its toll on her catering business.

Ajala said that the NNPC mega station was the only station where she got the product at the official price of N50 per litre.


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