Nigerians can’t know actual quantity of fuel consumed – NNPC

Group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari has said it is difficult for Nigerians to know their actual fuel consumption.

Spokesman of the NNPC, Garba Deen Muhammad, in a statement on Thursday, said Kyari stated this in his presentation at an interactive session organised by the joint Senate committee on the 2022-2024 Medium Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP).

The GMD attributed the situation to what he claimed to be “criminal activities of fuel smugglers.”

Kyari, according to the statement, stressed that the activities of smugglers have made it difficult for the country to determine the actual consumption figures for petrol, noting that the corporation can only know what was trucked out from loading depots across the country but cannot determine how much of that was consumed in-country.