Group Exonerates NNPCL From Fixing Petroleum Pump Price.

 

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation limited has been exonerated from fixing  the pump price of petroleum in the country but rather the price is being fixed by a body known as Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Agency.

Recall that NMDPRA  is ordinarily responsible for the regulation of the midstream and downstream petroleum operations in Nigeria which includes technical, operational, and commercial activities including the determination of appropriate tariff methodology.

In media on Thursday in Yenagoa, a group that called themselves friends of the Towers disclosed that  rather than bullying the NNPCL,  Nigerians should praise them adding that it has made so many achievements.

The group also disclosed that NMDPRA actually supposed to monitor all the filling stations in the country to make sure that they didn't sell Petroleum outside the automated price.

Speaking at the event, Solomon Oseagah, one of the conveners who identified  himself as media practitioner and player in the oil and gas industry called on  journalists to always fact check their information as it relates to NNPCL before going  to the press.

According to Solomon, the group managing Director  of NNPCL, Mele Kyari  has shown  that the company was no longer an opaque company as it has opened its financial records to the public.

On Port Harcourt refinery and its delay, Solomon stated that the refinery was already refining a product while PMS will be rolled out before the end of the year. 

He said, Mele Kyari  has shown  that the company is no longer an opaque company hence it has opened its financial records to the public, the first of its kind since NNPC was formed."

" As a matter of fact, NNPCL has arrested over 1000 persons who were involved  in vandalization of oil assets while others  committed economic sabotage but NNPCL has  not been  facilitate their prosecution despite all the  evidences they had  presented before the courts."

Also  speaking, Ekerete Friday, the Akwa Ibom Sate Nigerian Security  and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) PRO revealed that in his own area of operation, the NNPCL has reduced oil bunkering across the waters by ninety percent adding that "the same has also been achieved in Bayelsa State."

The conveners outlined the achievements of the GMD of NNPCL which include a command room where all operations and assets of the company is viewed  and promised to have journalists visit the headquarters to have a first-hand experience of it and take the message back to the people.

The journalists  however called on the NNPCL provide first-hand information instead of keeping quiet and allowing  their reputation to be  damaged.