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 the next two weeks.
The ultimatum 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.
Senator Uche Ekwunife, Chairman of the committee who gave the directive on 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 (PDP, Anambra South) frowned 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.
Further details soon…
-Vanguard