I am in need of your help to solve some problems I encountered in the public announcement made by the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Nigerian National Petroleum Corportation (recently changed to Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited), Mr. Mele Kyari, on Wednesday, February 9, 2022. In Nigeria's Channels TV, Mr. Kyari disclosed on that day how adulterated fuel was imported to the country by fuel importers. The quantity of petrol involved and the cost was not mentioned. Before listing the problems that I need your help to solve, let me place at your disposal excerpts from Mr. Kyari statements.
Mr. Mele Kyari said : (i) On January 20, 2022, NNPC received a report from our quality inspector on the presence of emulsion particles in PMS (petrol) shipped to Nigeria from Antwerp - Belgium.
(ii) Cargoes quality certificates issued at load port (Antwerp-Belgium) by Am Spec Belgium indicate that the gasoline complied with Nigerian Specification.
(iii) The NNPC quality inspectors including GMO, SGS, Geo Chem and G&G conducted tests before discharge and also showed that the gasoline met Nigerian Specification.
(iv) As a standard practice for all PMS(petrol) imports to Nigeria, the said cargoes were equally certified by inspection agents appointed by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA).
(v) It is important to note that the usual quality inspection protocol employed in both the load port in Belgium and our discharge ports in Nigeria DO NOT INCLUDE THE TEST FOR PERCENT MENTHANOL CONTENT and therefore the additive was not detected by OUR QUALITY INSPECTORS.
Since Wednesday, 9 February 2022, I have been trying to identify persons who are NNPC quality inspectors but I only met brick walls. Can any of our great scholars on this forum help me to disclose the names of the NNPC quality inspectors contained in the acronyms, GMO, SGS, Geo Chem and G&G? Are the NNPC quality inspectors Ghosts?
What percentage of methanol did the Nigerian specification approve for the imported fuel? If Nigerian specification limits the percentage of content of methanol in imported fuel, why is it not a standard practice to test for if the limit is exceeded or not at the port of discharge in Nigeria? If the Nigerian quality inspectors conducted tests before discharge and certified that the gasoline met Nigerian specification, at which point in Nigeria did adulteration of the gasoline take place? And finally, what is the percentage of methanol (impurity) in the imported fuel?
S. Kadiri
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