News reaching NOTM indicated that the secret security, Department of State Services has given Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited and other stakeholders in the downstream sector 48 hours to end the perrenial fuel scarcity across the country.
This scarcity is biting hard in several states across the country.
Addressing journalists at the DSS headquarters in Abuja on Thursday, its spokesperson, Peter Afunanya, disclosed that the service held a closed-door meeting with stakeholders and it was agreed that the scarcity must end.
The DSS spokesman explained that the service decided to wade into the development in the interest of the nation.
He explained that that the service would not fold its arms to allow some individuals or group to destabilise the country.
He said during the meeting, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited discovered that it had about 1.9 billion litres of PMS in stock which will last for the period of Yuletide and beyond.
Afunnaya revealed that commands of the secret service had been placed on red alert in view of bringing defaulters to book.
The stakeholders who attended the meeting included MOMAN, DEPMAN, IPMAN, NNPC, NARTO, NUPENG and PTD.
However, motorists have been bearing the brunt of the fuel scarcity both in queuing for hours at filling stations and paying between N250 to N300 per litre of the commodity at many independent marketers’ outlets.
