Motorists and Commuters were reportedly stranded on Tuesday as fuel queues resurfaced in Lagos State.
Long queues were seen at many fuel stations in the state as motorists and commercial drivers besieged the filling stations to fill their vehicle tanks.
The situation caused traffic gridlocks in Isheri, Egbeda, Akowonjo, Ikotun, Maryland, Ikosi-Ketu, and some other areas in the state.
Many filling stations along the stretch of LASU-Igando road were shuttered, while the few that opened for business sold petrol between N200 and N210 per litre.
However, the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) has blamed it on the depot owners.
According to the National Controller, Operations, IPMAN, Mike Osatuyi, IPMAN members could not get sufficient products at the depots.
Osatuyi said buying petrol from the depots now costs as much as N200 per litre.
“No fuel. Even when we were able to get a small quantity, DAPPMAN sold it to us at N200/N202 per litre. By the time we transport it to our stations, the cost would be around N210/litre,” he said.
But the Chairman of the Depots and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN), Dame Williams Akpani, blamed the fuel crisis on logistics and bad roads.
Akpani said petrol tankers now spend one week instead of three days to travel from Lagos to Abuja.
Akpani added that the bad Abuja road network had led to a breakdown of petroleum trucks, which according to her, had resulted in apathy on the part of the drivers in taking products to the federal capital.
The spokesperson for the state oil company, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, Garba Deen Mohammed, could not be reached for comment as his phone was switched off as of press time.
