NNPC has publicly apologized to all Nigerians over the avoidable scarcity of PMS in the country, Kyari reassured Nigerians every necessary step has been taken to ensure supply sufficiency. “Let me tell Nigerians that we have a robust supply plan. By the end of this month, we’ll have about 2.1 billion litres of PMS.
“What we call panic buying is a situation where people who usually go the filling stations to buy N2,000 worth now buy five times that volume and those with more than one car will bring out all their cars.
“That is why you see all these cars in the filling stations and it creates supply disruption.
“We are assuring Nigerians that we have a robust supply plan and there is no need to bring out all your cars. Just buy what you need because there are plans to address this situation.”
He expressed regret over the economic disruptions and hardship.
“We are very conscious of the consequences that will come with it – the queues that you are seeing, the disruption of the economic activities that are very obvious. We are aware of this.
“We regret this situation and it is completely unavoidable. We didn’t see it coming. I apologise to Nigerians that we didn’t see it coming.”
A member of the Committee, Adedeji Olajide, said NNPC’s ignorance about the PMS containing methanol was not an excuse, adding somebody must be held responsible.
He said: “Somebody must take responsibility for this because if we don’t, somebody will in future say something similar to that.
“We are going to need a lot of documentation that you are not aware that such a practice took place.”