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 Ekwunife, 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 that fuel was sold to the public at government’s controlled
price of N87.00 per litre.
Senator
Ekwunife,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, Ekwunife, 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.
-Vanguard
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