February 10, (THEWILL) – The House of Representatives has directed the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited to suspend the four companies which recently imported adulterated fuel into the country.
The lawmakers also mandated its committee on petroleum downstream to investigate the release and sale of the off-spec Premium Motor Spirit by petrol stations across the country and to bring the culprits to book.
THEWILL earlier reported the Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, had on Wednesday said that there will be a major investigation to unravel the cause of the unsafe quantity of methanol in petrol imported into the country.
Following the development, the group managing-director of the NNPC Ltd, Mele Kyari, had on Wednesday night, said the methanol blended petrol was imported into the country by the suppliers through four Premium Motor Spirit cargoes under its Direct Sales Direct Purchase (DSDP) arrangement.
Kyari had listed listed the companies – MRS, Emadeb/Hyde/AY Maikifi/Brittania-U Consortium, Oando, and Duke Oil as the importers of the contaminated product.
However, in a motion of urgent public importance raised on Thursday by the Chief Whip of the House of Representatives, Mohammed Monguno, the lawmaker expressed concern over the effect of the adulterated fuel on vehicles and how the cost of transportation, goods, and service has increased.
Some of the lawmakers lamented that the system is completely compromised, considering the processes which the fuel must go through before reaching the fuel stations.
They asked that Nigerians whose vehicles and equipment were directly affected by the adulterated fuel be compensated.
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