Nigeria: PPRA Blames Fuel Scarcity On Non-Payment of Marketers

26 March 2014

The executive secretary of the Petroleum Products Pricing and Regulatory Agency (PPRA), Mr Ahmed Faruk, yesterday admitted that the non-payment to marketers is partly responsible for the fuel crisis being experienced in some parts of the country, just as he said over nine vessels are currently discharging about 200m litres of the product across the country.

Faruk made this disclosure when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) to defend his agency's budget

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