 Oil marketers on Sunday said the federal government should evacuate and dispense the products currently trapped in the depots which were shot down recently by the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA. Marketers said the products should be dispensed at the regulated rate of 148 Naira per litre to help address the scarcity of petrol in some states instead of leaving them trapped despite the fuel crisis across the country. The chief executive NMDPRA Farooq Ahmed said the action by the affected depots contravened the provisions of the Petroleum Industry Act 2021 and also contributed to the recent PMS supply crisis in the downstream oil sector. And the first action we took a couple of days ago was to shut down some of the some of the marketing companies' depots or where they have products in. And of course, a lot of them that we all know have abridged that trust, their regulatory requirements, but we had to start from somewhere. So we shut down about seven depots, one in Lagos, sorry, one in Lagos as a company, the other one as a company. So we shut down Adobah, shut down, Adobah is under maintenance. So we shut down where they had their products and they were selling beyond the control and Adobah is a major marketing company. You know, they are getting their products directly from NMDPRA and also getting it with some level of comfort because it's not like cash and carry. So they had no reason to increase their price beyond reason.