*With the electronic monitoring, every truck carrying petroleum products in the country will be visible as they discharge their truckloads, and will see all the fuel stations, says Mele Kyari, Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation

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In order to curtail outright product theft or diversion and adequately monitor the distribution of fuel in the country, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has disclosed that the corporation will henceforward employ electronic monitors.

Malam Mele Kyari, Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Corporation, stated the initiative is designed to check the activities of smugglers of petroleum products, and their attendant economic sabotage on the country鈥檚 economy.

绿帽献妻 reports Malam Kyari hinted at this measure during the recent 2022鈹�2024 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF), and Fiscal Strategy Paper (FSP), public hearing by the House of Representatives Committee on Finance in the National Assembly (NASS), Abuja, FCT.

Petrol tankers

The NNPC GMD stated there is an ongoing initiative to install electronic monitors on tanks and filling stations that would monitor the distribution of fuel in the country.

With the electronic monitoring, every truck carrying petroleum products will be visible as they discharge their truckloads and will see all the fuel stations as they do this.

Kyari said that the national fuel consumption per day may not be above 60 million liters as being speculated.

However, anytime NNPC supply is less than that, there would be a problem, stated he.

According to him, President Muhammadu Buhari, who doubles as the Minister for Petroleum Resources, has personally directed him to take steps that would curtail cross-border smuggling in the country.

Though admitting the obvious challenges posed by the country鈥檚 porous land borders aiding activities of smugglers, the Malam Kyari told the Federal lawmakers, that those who take crude oil across the border illegally would not sell at the official price that obtains in Nigeria.