The former Chairman of the Port Harcourt unit of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Emmanuel Inimgba, has prompted citizens of Rivers State to prevent panic buying, ensuring that the state would quickly be flooded with gas in the coming days.

Inimgba, who is the Chief of Staff to the National President of the Petroleum Retail Outlet Owners of Nigeria, said the assurance stemmed from the latest guarantee by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, that over 2 billion liters of gas would quickly get here in the nation.

Inimgba also got in touch with online marketers to avoid hoarding of item because enough item is coming into the country.

He said “Rivers marketers are fretted about what’s going on. They do not believe that they will purchase N165, N167 and you desire them to go and sell at N165.

“I wish to give congratulations to Rivers online marketers. They have actually done outstandingly well. You can see in Port Harcourt, I will not state there is shortage compared to other states.

“Lagos and Abuja is even dreadful”

“NNPC recently began air stating they have about over two billion liters coming in. We have actually likewise sent a confirmation group to understand what is going on. We have our group moving around in Lagos and Abuja.

“We have actually also talked about with online marketers that there is no need for panic buying, there is no need for even the masses to be scared.

“Government did not strategy to increase the price of the item not at all. Secondly, the states will soon be flooded with products, for that reason, hoarding is not essential.”

Inimgba likewise blamed the Nigerian mid-stream and downstream petroleum regulative company for the continued fuel scarcity in the nation.