President of the union, Comrade Achese Igwe, said the actors in the fuel scarcity saga are driven by profit motive and inordinate ambition to unduly benefit from fuel subsidy fund.
He said: “oil marketers and depot owners are sabotaging free-flow of fuel supply in the country. This explains why the country is currently being enmeshed in scarcity of the product with attendant fuel queues at filling stations few days to the crucial general elections.”
Igwe also scolded the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) for using private depots to store fuel as it gives owners of the facility undue advantage to create scarcity of the product at will.
He says NNPC should call the marketers to order as well as strive to put government-owned depots in proper shape.
He also added that FG should try as much as possible to bring back the ailing refineries.
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