Officials of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Kaduna Zone have appealed to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to increase fuel supply to seven states under the zone,
The Guardian reports.
The Zonal Operations Manager of DPR, Alhaji Isa Tafida, said shortage in the supply of fuel to Kaduna and other northern states under the zone had worsened the scarcity experienced in Kaduna, Katsina, Kano, Zamfara, Jigawa, Kebbi and Sokoto, adding that “this has made the monitoring exercise of the DPR difficult.”
Tafida, who spoke at a press conference in Kaduna, said “since the beginning of the year, the state (Kaduna) receives an average of 30 trucks of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) (fuel) per day which is below the state sufficiency requirement of 70 trucks per day.”