The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) Retail is set to buy 500 Petroleum trucks that would be deployed for product transportation services by the end of the second quarter of the year.
The vehicles will run on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and they will have attached to them, devices like cameras that would monitor fatigue and other relevant safety issues in the course of a journey.
These measures, and more, are part of a collaborative effort of the federal government and all the stakeholders in oil and gas industry to prevent further carnage on Nigerian roads through petroleum tanker accidents.
At a virtual meeting of the Major Energies Marketers Association of Nigeria (MEMAN), yesterday, the Association’s Chairman, Huub Stokman, bemoaned the rate of accidents involving petroleum tankers on Nigerian roads in recent times.
Stokman, who is also the managing director of NNPC Retail, regretted that while it is glaring that the state of roads in the country are parlous, but, majority of the trucks being used in the product distribution are equally too are old.
