Mr Antai Asuquo, the Operations Controller of the Department
of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Warri Zonal Office, has said that the Federal
Government had no plan to increase the pump price of petrol.
Asuquo made this disclosure to newsmen on Tuesday on a
sideline of the celebration of the “World Day for Cultural Diversity for
Dialogue and Development” held simultaneously in all the DPR offices in the
country.
The controller urged Nigerians to be focused and stop
worrying about possible fuel hike that could lead to crisis in the supply
chain, adding that, ‘the product is available and the pump price remains N145
per litre’.
“There is availability of petroleum products, the price of
Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS) remains the same and there is no immediate plan to
change it.
“We should not hoard the product for a particular period of
time because keeping the product at home is dangerous.
“Our lives and property are important, so we should value
and manage our resources in a way that we do not cause harm to ourselves,” he
advised.
Asuquo also urged Nigerians to key into the federal
government’s policy on the use of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), noting that
there was abundant cooking gas in the country.
“The LPG is the energy of the future, it is cleaner, most
sustainable and we have abundant of it.
“I encourage people to follow the government’s policies and
we will be happy for it,” he said.
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