Worried
by the unending nationwide fuel scarcity, the Senate, yesterday, summoned the
Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, to appear before
it today.
The
development came just as senators of the Peoples Democratic Democratic Party,
PDP, charged President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately take charge of the
country and live up to his campaign promises, which they noted, centred on
positive change for the country.
Kachikwu was summoned by the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), after the committee carried out on-the-spot assessment of the crisis in major filling stations within Abuja metropolis.
Members of the committee were angry that many filling stations were not selling the product due to alleged lack of supply from the NNPC depot at Suleja, leading to long queues of motorists waiting under the scorching sun for the non-available product.
Kachikwu was summoned by the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), after the committee carried out on-the-spot assessment of the crisis in major filling stations within Abuja metropolis.
Members of the committee were angry that many filling stations were not selling the product due to alleged lack of supply from the NNPC depot at Suleja, leading to long queues of motorists waiting under the scorching sun for the non-available product.
The committee’s Acting Chairman, Jibrin Barau, alongside two
other members, said the Petroleum Minister must definitely appear before them today
to explain what led to the situation and possibly proffer a lasting solution.
Barau, who addressed journalists after the assessment of some filling stations,
described the situation as not only pathetic but also bad, stressing that it
must be urgently arrested.
He said the development made the Senate President, Dr. Bukola
Saraki, to call on the committee to swing into action as a way of bailing
Nigerians out of the crisis.
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