Posted on: 04:55 Thu, 26 Nov 2015



THE Senate Committee on Petroleum
(Downstream),has directed the
Minister of Petroleum
Resources,President Muhammadu
Buhari, to end the ongoing fuel
scarcity in the country within two
weeks from now.

This came on the heels of disclosure
by the Pipeline Products Marketing
Company,PPMC,that Nigeria lost a
whopping N50 billion in ten months
as a result of vandalisation of
petroleum pipeline in some parts of
the country.

Chairman of the committee,Senator
Uche Ekwenife, who gave the
directive,Thursday,in Abuja,during
the committee’s meeting with top
officials of Ministry of Petroleum
Resources,insisted that the petroleum
minister must not only end the
scarcity but ensure ensure that fuel
was sold to the public at
government’s controlled price of
N87.00 per litre.

Senator Ekwenife,representing
Anambra South, on the platform of
the opposition Peoples Democratic
Party,PDP,frowend at the ongoing
fuel crisis,saying Nigerians were
suffering untold hardship following
the development.

Fuming over what she described as
unnecessary fuel crisis, Ekwenife,
said:”We are mandating the
Minister of Petroleum Resources,the
Permanent Secretary and heads of
agencies to stop this fuel scarcity in
two weeks.

“We are giving a target now,we
don’t wan’t to know how you would
achieve it.Nigerians want to see an
end to this fuel scarcity.

Source: Vanguard