Petroleum marketers responsible for fuel scarcity — Ex-militant leaders
Anti-pipeline Vandalisation/Oil Theft Task Force comprising ex-militant leaders drawn from crude oil producing communities in the six states of the Niger Delta region have accused some unpatriotic petroleum marketers of being engaged in diversion and hoarding of petroleum products in their filing stations and adjustment of pump price.
According to a statement signed by the National Coordinator of the Task Force, Comrade Pathfinder Fiawei Comrade Pathfinder Fiawei explained that the Managing Director of Retail of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), Mr. Huub Stokman, on assumption of office has made efforts to ensure the disappearance of queues at filling stations nationwide.
The group also acknowledged that Stokman being a former Managing Director of OVH Energy Company, is now a game changer in the nation’s oil sector, most especially in the downstream sector.
“As an astute global professional and administrator par excellence in the oil and gas sector and with an intimidating and outstanding track record, while he served in OVH, he has brought his solid wealth of experience to turn around things in the nation’s downstream sector. He has added that his landmark achievement at OandO Plc still resonates before taking over the helms of affair as the MD, NNPC Retail Limited.”
The statement reads in part, “The leadership of Anti-Pipeline Vandalization/Oil Theft Task Force Group (AVOTTG) in the Niger Delta region commends the Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) Retail, Mr Huub Stokman, for his hard work, transparent service delivery and dedication to the Retail Organization and for putting all measures, mechanism in place to curtail shortage of petroleum products popularly known as PMS in the country.
“We as stakeholders in the oil sector categorically and unequivocally state that since Mr Huub Stockman assumed office as the Managing Director, Retail of the NNPC, and the increasing cases of queues in the petrol stations across the country and diversion of petroleum products and hoarding of PMS in most of the petrol stations is now a thing of the past.
“More especially in the area of efficient and transparent distribution of petroleum products across the over 380 NNPC Retail Outlets and independent marketers and major marketers filling stations, and depots nationwide.”
Meanwhile, according to the ex-militant leaders, Stockman’s emergence as the new chairman of Major Oil Marketers Association Of Nigeria (MOMAN) is not by accident, but based on the display of dexterity, capacity, capability, hard work, competence, and dedication to transparent service delivery, which he had navigated the nation’s oil industry, and bringing it up to an enviable height in accordance with best global practice, whereby he had never discriminated any of the oil marketers across the country”.
“This is also a testament of the great work Mr Huub Stockman is doing that makes him outstanding professional with legacies of transparency and diligence he had shown so far including due diligence and sincerity of purpose in landscaping the affairs of NNPC Retail Limited”, the group added.
However, the group expressed optimism that the skeletal issues of fuel queues being experienced in some parts of the country will disappear as soon as possible, because he (Stockman) has been working hard in synergy with the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) NNPC, Mele Kyari, and other organs of NNPC in collaboration with stakeholders in the sector, particularly, the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN) in making sure adequate volume of petroleum products are available for transparent distribution chain across the six geopolitical zones of the country.
Meanwhile, the ex-militants also threw their weight behind Stokman, “As a foremost ex-militant leaders who deeply involved in the war against pipeline vandalism oil theft and illegal bunkering in the creeks of the Niger Delta region and as stakeholders in the nation’s oil sector, we will like to affirm that the emergence of Mr Huub Stockman as the Managing Director of NNPC Retail Limited is one of the best things that has happened to the nation’s oil downstream sector so far”.
They also commended the Bulk Sales Manager, NNPC Retail Limited, Mr Isah Ismael, “And also in all sincerity of purpose, as ex-militant leaders who are working hard in collaboration with the law enforcement agencies in the country as stakeholders in the fight against pipeline vandalism and oil theft in the creeks of Niger Delta region, emphatically commend one of the outstanding and most performed staff of NNPC Retail Limited who is the Bulk Sales Manager, Mr. Isah Ismael, for his competence, transparency, capability, and dedication to service delivery in the nation’s oil sector.
“Indeed, Ismael has been working hard and tirelessly in support of the Managing Director of NNPC Retail Limited in making sure that there is constant availability and proper distribution of petroleum products transparently, so we deemed it fit to commend you also for doing a good job in NNPC Retail Limited.”
However, the group called on Nigerians to support the efforts of the Tinubu-led administration and the NNPC as they work to change the narrative in the sector.
“At this juncture, we the ex-militant leaders under the auspices of Anti-Pipeline Vandalisation/ Oil Theft Task Force, hereby call on well-meaning Nigerians and stakeholders in the nation’s downstream sector to collaborate with the Managing Director of NNPC Retail Limited, Mr. Huub Stockman, and its entire management to work closely in order to address the issues of fuel queues being experienced in some major cities in the country”, they said.
They also added, “The queues are caused by some unpatriotic and unscrupulous elements who engage in diverting and hoarding of most the petroleum products in their various filing stations and also engaged in criminal adjustment of pump price at their filling stations, therefore, leading to panic buying.”
SOURCE: tribuneonlineng.com
