Awka – NNPC Mega Station in Awka, Anambra State, has continued to witness long queues of kerosene consumers owing to the acute shortage of the product in the state.

After several months, the NNPC has yet to make the product available to the consuming public through the various retail outlets in the state, in spite of the presidential directive to the corporation.

This has increased the desperation of low-income earners as the scarcity of the product escalates in Awka and its environs.

Most filling stations did not have the product while those in possession sold it to the public at prohibitive prices due to alleged bridging.

It was learnt that on Tuesday, kerosene sold at N90 at the MRS station on Awka-Onitsha Road at Amawbia.

Majority of the stations,  including Emma Pet, Masters Energy and Oando on the same axis of road also sold at N90 per litre.

Some retail outlets on Nnamdi Azikiwe Road, Awka sold at N115 and N110 per liter against the government approved price of N50 per litre.

The situation has caused unusual queues on the NNPC station at Awka, the only station that obtains the product twice a week and sells it at the approved N50 per litre rate.