The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, has assured Nigerians that the lingering fuel scarcity will be fully over in the next one week.
The Minister who briefed State House correspondents after Wednesday’s Federal Executive Council meeting blamed the scarcity on the activities of saboteurs. He however thanked Nigerians for their patience so far.
“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 these 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 price 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 fuel. ”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 problems we met on ground and trying to find long term solutions to them 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
