Bad Fuel: Mele Kyari's Immediate response saved economy




By Ibrahim Hassan-Wuyo


But for the swift manner the Nigeria National Petroleum Company(NNPC) handled the dangerous imported methanol blended petrol from Belgium, the damages to Nigerians would have been colossal, a group, the Oil and Gas Accountability and Probity Forum (OGAPF) have said.

The OGAPF said it was left with no option but to commend the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Company ( NNPC), Mr Mele Kyari and his management team.



In a press statement signed by the National Chairman, Comrade Timi Douglas and made available to journalists in Kaduna, the Forum said that this was the first time NNPC management in recent times has been able to rise to a critical occasion that could have caused serious damage and hazards to innocent Nigerians.

“We are known to be very critical about situations and operations in the oil and gas sector, but resolved to come out publicly to commend the Group Managing Director, Mele Kyari for taking up the challenge to inform Nigerians immediately. This step taken helped to avoid disaster and saved lives and properties of our citizens.”

“The impending damage presence of methanol in the imported PMS already supplied to our filling stations would have caused damage to cars, households and filling stations.”

” For working within the shortest period to withdraw all the products and restore sanity is a feat worthy of commendation.”

“How the NNPC Boss promptly ordered the quarantine of all un-evacuated volumes and the holding back of all the affected products in transit (both truck & marine) and the directive to immediately relocate key management staff to Lagos in search of sustainable solutions was the magic wand.”

“No doubt, these actions helped to identify the cargoes with the toxic fuel and quarantined them, while all the trucks that have left the depots were tracked and intercepted.”

The Forum, however, lauded the manner NNPC was able to restock the depot with cleaner fuels and inspected all the filling stations to ensure that they do not have the petrol that had excessive methanol.

Meanwhile, it urged NNPC to intensify efforts at increasing the supply of petrol into the market in order to bridge any unforeseen supply gap.

While blaming the four companies for having hands in the cargoes that brought Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) high in methanol into the country from Belgium, the Oil and Gas Accountability and Probity Forum maintained that the indicted companies must be fished out.

“Nigerians now know that long queues that resurfaced recently were caused by these ‘careless’ companies, who should have ensured the quality of products imported are properly checked and certified.

“We have observed and noticed that for the past three years to the 2021 yuletide season, Nigerians didn’t suffer long queues at filling stations across the country. For us, It is enough reason to give kudos to the current management of NNPC.”

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What a shithole.

How did the fuel get into the country in the first place

How did it pass quality tests that it ended up in our fueling stations? That should be a more critical issue to focus on and not some praise singing and ass lickit

The products should be withdrawn effective immediately

Testing d mic.
It's a ploy to see how people will react if eventually fuel is sold above d current price per liter.
Meanwhile, fuel importation is not done without officials from dpr, nnpc, and other agencies vetting d quality of fuel imported.
Prior to 2015 election, this govt promised Nigerians that it will fix d refineries in 4yrs.
7 yrs down d line, we are still spending billions doin TAM.

Which swift reaction? Were dey d ones dat discovered the bad fuel? Truth is they have been importing bad fuel into the country before. This isn't d first tym

We should commend him?? The useless author is giving the impression that this was just a mistake, that somehow the importation of this fuel is no different from a woman that mistakenly purchased bad palm oil from the market. Forgetting that there are checks & balances that these unscrupulous individuals went out of their way to avoid just to get this product into the country. How can any sensible adult that does not wear pampers think to applaud a man who should be facing a sack for worsening the economic crisis in the country with his ineptitude! Nigerians always expect to avoid the consequences of their bad choices, "God no go let us see shame" and the likes, rubbish!!