The Senate has ordered the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, to appear before it on Tuesday to explain the unending fuel scarcity across the country.
The Senate
Committee on Petroleum Downstream invited the Minister after carrying out an
on-the-spot assessment of the fuel crises in major petrol stations in the
nation’s capital city.
Although
Dr Ibe Kachikwu has given the assurance that the federal government would soon eliminate the scarcity of petrol and the
resultant crisis in the sector, the Senate committee believe there is the need
to have a clearer understanding of the situation and how it is being addressed.
The
fuel scarcity has created a booming business for fuel black marketers as many
Nigerians would rather buy fuel from them than spend long hours in petrol
stations.
Some
of the stations visited were not selling petrol and the operators gave reasons
which the chairman of the Senate committee said were unacceptable.
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