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Fuel shipments are reportedly still arriving in Mozambican ports (Image: Cornelder)
As of the beginning of the week starting May 9, normal practice was to make arrangements to
she said, Imopetro’s stocks contained enough import petroleum products on a monthly basis,
gasoline to cover 29 days of consumption, and that it was remaining in contact with suppli-
enough diesel to cover 19 days of consump- ers as part of its efforts to ensure that adequate
tion and enough LPG to cover 16 days of quantities of fuel were available on the local
consumption. market.
She also stressed that shipments of imported The group has already taken the necessary
fuel were still arriving regularly in Mozambican steps to ensure fuel supplies in June, she said.
ports. For example, she stated, the port of Pemba “Imports are continuing at normal levels,”
saw one vessel finish unloading gasoline and she told reporters. “We have the order for June
diesel on May 6, while another vessel carrying confirmed. We placed the order for June at the
jet fuel had just docked at the port of Nacala and end of April. The supplier has confirmed that we
another two fuel tankers were waiting to dock have two windows for supply, one from 12 to 16
and unload their cargo at the port of Beira as of June, and the other from 26 to 30 June. Import
May 13. levels remain the same. The orders remain at
“Right now, we have three ships in Maputo,” the level of 197,000 to 200,000 tonnes of fuel a
she added. “One has already unloaded. It fin- month.”
ished unloading yesterday [May 12], and now Imopetro is the exclusive agent for the
we are unloading the ship with [cooking] gas in importation of liquid and gaseous fuels into
Maputo. We have two more that are waiting to Mozambique. It is a group owned by all of the
unload petrol, jet fuel and diesel.” fuel distributors that have authorisation to oper-
Amade further explained that Imopetro’s ate in the country. ™

POLICY
SERAP sues Buhari in a bid to force

investigation of refinery funding

NIGERIA THE Socio-Economic Rights and Accounta- The NGO filed suit in the Federal High Court
bility Project (SERAP), a Nigerian non-gov- in Lagos last week, This Day reported on May
ernmental organisation (NGO), has taken 16.
legal action against two high-ranking officials In their petition, SERAP claimed that Presi-
for their alleged failure to investigate charges dent Muhammadu Buhari and Justice Minister
that funding allocated to government-owned Abubakar Malami, who also serves as attorney
refineries had been stolen, diverted into private general, had not looked into reports concerning
hands or otherwise mismanaged. the misuse of state funds.

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