The Nigerian Affiliation of Avenue Transport Dwelling house owners (NARTO), has allayed fears of bizarre scarcity of High fee Motor Spirit (PMS), on the entire is known as petrol in Abuja and environs.

NARTO’s president, Yusuf Othman, gave the reassurance on Thursday in Lagos.

Mr Othman debunked claims by oil entrepreneurs that NARTO contributors have been not prepared to buy petrol to the nation’s capital due to the melancholy scenario of the roads.

“There’s by no means any iota of reality in that declare. Really that fuel is being disbursed and the transporters are very elated with the Federal Authorities.

“We’re elated with the N10 that was added to the freight fee for PMS. The very best challenge we now have is that it has not completely been applied by the entrepreneurs.

“However as at this second, there may be by no means any chance to strike and we’re not occurring strike.

“In fact, following the approval, a few of our contributors together with myself have purchased novel autos to amplify distribution of PMS throughout the nation.’’

He, which implies reality, informed residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) now to not buy in scare buying for of petrol given that transporters have been obtainable to distribute merchandise to Abuja and environs.

The federal govt had on June 1, licensed an upward overview of the freight fee for PMS following the interesting amplify throughout the worth of diesel archaic by autos for transportation of the product.

The supervisor acknowledged the go was to abet NARTO and diversified stakeholders to deploy extra autos to go PMS nationwide to be decided ample current of the product. 

(NAN)