FEDERAL Government has blamed the lingering scarcity of
fuel which has crippled socio-economic activities in the country on sabotage,
however vowed to bring the situation to a logical conclusion before the end of next
week.
Speaking to State House Correspondents after
the Federal Executive Council Meeting (FEC) yesterday presided over by President
Muhammadu Buhari, the group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC) who ably doubles as Minister of State for Petroleum
Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, said that the queues in filing stations across the
nation would certainly disappear alongside black market system by
the end of next week adding that the federal government had taken strategic and
crucial actions towards avoiding reoccurrences in the future.
Furthermore, the minister expressed gratitude to the
masses for exercising patience and understanding adding that the present
administration was also concerned about the plights of the masses all these
while, and therefore concluded that the administration remains committed to
delivering all the promises it made to the people to better their lives.
Kachikwu added that the Corporation is working assiduously
to ensure delivering of about 1,200 trucks daily aimed at ending queues across the
nation.
“The queues are as a result of sabotage. Some people
rather than sell products send them into interlands where they can sell at
ridiculous prices and so you are having this price distortions where people are
making a lot of money, some are internal and some are external but a lot of it
is marketers trying to make quick returns on their investments wrongly.
“We have asked DPR to deploy officials to
ensure products are sold at the right because is only through price
stabilization that these system queues will disappear.
“As at today we are delivering about 1,200
trucks, by weekend we should be delivering same number of trucks, it will take
a bit of days to even out but you can see improvement already. I hope by the
end of next week with the refineries helping us to stay on course, every part
of the country will get fuels.
“We thank President, NNPC staff and
ministries who work night and day to enforce discipline. We thank Nigerians for
their unbelievable level of patience, we are solving problem we met on ground
and trying to find long term solution to it and urge Nigerians to report
sabotage, where people are selling product on higher price because we all need
to work collectively to make this thing go for good”, he said.
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