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NUPENG commends NNPC over resumption of loading at Mosinmi, Ejigbo Depots

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The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has commended the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) on resumption of loading of products at Mosinmi and Ejigbo Depots.

Tokunbo Korodo, the Chairman, South-West chapter of NUPENG, gave the commendation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.

NNPC has been recording huge financial loss by pumping petroleum products through the System 2B Pipelines Network due to the activities of vandals.

System 2B Pipelines Network is the pumping of petroleum products from Atlas Cove in Lagos Island to Ejigbo to Mosinmi in Ogun to Ibadan to Ore in Ondo State and Ilorin in Kwara.

The corporation had in 2016 stopped pumping of petroleum products through the network, thereby making use of the private depots in Apapa to distribute its products.

Korodo said that resumption of loading would reduce the gridlock often associated with the tankers in Apapa-Mile 2 Road and ensure that the products get to different filling stations in time.

He said that the economic situation within the two depots paralysed as a result of the closure had been revived.

“The reopening of these depots will accelerate fuel distribution in the South-West zone and reduce the traffic gridlock on Apapa Road.

“The number of petroleum tankers plying Lagos-Ibadan Highway will be reduced as well,’’ he said.

The chairman said that oil marketers were subjected to paying additional money by the private tank farm owners in Apapa in spite of queuing for extra days.

He, however, said that the game was over with the opening of Mosinmi and Ejigbo Depots to the independent marketers.

Korodo urged NNPC to consider the opening of Ibadan, Ore and Ilorin Depots.