Nigeria transports less petrol after closure of Benin border – PPPRA

The volume of petroleum products transported from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation fuel depots reduced in the wake of the recent closure of the Nigerian border with Benin Republic, the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) has reported.

In a monitoring report, the regulatory agency said it observed a declining trend in the supply of petrol since the federal government announced the partial closure of the country’s borders.

A statement by the PPPRA spokesperson, Kimchi Apollo, said the development points at the gradual reduction in the volume of petrol trucked out from the depots.

Mr Apollo said records from various depots nationwide between August 5 and 11 this year revealed about 61 million litres of petrol was loaded and trucked-out by the NNPC.

The volume, the PPPRA said, represents the average daily trucked-out volume before the border closure.

However, the agency said it observed from the data obtained between the August 12 and 18, there was a drop of about 35 per cent in the volume of petrol trucked-out against the figures recorded the previous year.

It attributed the drop to the reduction in the volume of activities at various fuel depots during the Sallah holiday.

However, the agency said between August 19 and 25, which falls within the period the borders were partially closed, it recorded an average daily truck-out figure of about 57 million litres which falls below the daily average figure recorded prior to the announcement.

Similarly, it said, between August 26 and September 1, a total of about 371.82 million litres of petrol was trucked out, averaging a daily figure of 53 million litres.

SOURCE: premiumtimesng.com