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Govt To Shut Down Manual Fuel Loading By December 31

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Govt To Shut Down Manual Fuel Loading By December 31
Dec 22nd 2012, 00:00

kasali_copyTHE Federal Government is not looking back in its commitment to discontinue manual loading of petroleum products at depots.

In a few days time, precisely December 31, the Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF) will shut down the manual loading system. All facilities and staff hitherto used for that purpose are to be withdrawn. In their place would be electronic-based loading system, codenamed 'AQUILA'.

The management of the Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF) recently introduced the electronic loading system and has been test running it for months now.

Executive Secretary of PEF Management Board, Mrs. Adefunke Sharon Kasali, said in an interview with The Guardian that the system has gone a long way in removing payment abuses and enhancing efficiency in loading and payments of genuine claims.

She noted that the electronic loading system has been tested and is set to completely overtake the manual process.

She said: "December 31, 2012, by the grace of God, we will shut down the manual system, because people have had almost a year running it. You will now have to use a truck that is already tagged and registered by us, and is on our system. If you don't, we won't be able to accept your transaction. In fact, our officials at the depots will not have the capability of accepting it manually."

"We have the mandate of reimbursing marketers the cost of transportation and the differential in the transportation of products from the loading, receiving depot to their outlets," she said. "Essentially, the agency was set up to deal with the equalisation part, but in 1998, the bridging aspect was transferred to PEF from NNPC where it was before, so we have been doing that for the past 14 years or so."

Kasali noted: "We have made tremendous progress with the implementation of the e-payment solution to pay marketers claims efficiently. In the past, payment of a claim could take months. Now, payment is effected within minutes. This shows that we are taking advantage of technological advancement to serve our customers better."

She said her organisation is five years ahead of other government agencies in the implementation of electronic government solutions.

"ACQUILA is now tying the end of it all. There is really nothing we don't do on it. Our procurement is done on it. All the activities that we do in the organisation are done on it. This increases our efficiency and indeed our effectiveness."

She went on: "That is why with Project ACQUILA, you can actually tell how far a truck has gone. Has it been loaded? Has it been dispatched? Has it arrived? We can tell all of that. We can know when it has taken off, and we can know when it has arrived and has been received. And if it doesn't arrive, it doesn't get paid. In the past, this was subject to other people's confirmation. Now, computers are the ones that confirm this. What that means is that if you load products and you don't arrive at your destination, you don't get paid any more. Though a foreigner designed the system, the staff of PEF wrote the codes. So, we are saving government millions of dollars."

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