NARTO: OUR DEMANDS WILL NOT AFFECT FUEL PRICE

The demands by the Nigerian Association of Road Transport Owners won’t affected the pump prices of Premium Motor Spirit also known as petrol.
NARTO President, Yusuf Othman, stated this on national television on Wednesday.

Othman said, “I do not think it will affect the pump price of petrol. It’s not likely to affect the pump price because what we want them (marketers) to do is to look within their margins and make some sacrifices.

“It’s very tough but if it is going to affect the pump price, by now, you would have seen the price changes. “

“It’s practically impossible for us to operate as we are now because there has to be a shift. And that shift is for the marketers to look within at what they can do,” he added.

NARTO had lamented high cost of Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) also known as diesel which is used to fuel their trucks for the movement of petroleum products across Nigeria.

Like Premium Motor Spirit popularly known as petrol which now sells at over N600 per litre, the price of diesel has skyrocketed of late, no thanks to the forex crisis in the country. At the moment, diesel sells above N1,250 per litre in Nigeria.

The association had stopped lifting of petroleum products on Monday amid harsh economic realities.