Fuel shortage will end next week – Kachikwu promises again
– Fuel shortage is expected to end by the end of next week
– “We thank Nigerians for their unbelievable level of patience.”
Ibe Kachikwu, the minister of petroleum resources, has extended the time for implementing the existing plans to end the lingering fuel scarcity in the country.
Speaking on the sore point at the end of the FEC meetig at the State House on Wednesday, April 20, the minister has promised that the queues will completely disappear by the end of next week.
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Mr Kachikwu also blamed sabotage for being the reason of the current situation and thanked Nigerians for their patience.
He said: “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.
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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.”
Yesterday the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation(NNPC) has reported on 1,194 trucks of petrol are set to be distributed nationwide.
It would be recalled that Nigerians listen to promises to tackle the fuel crisis in the country since March, however, despite desperate attempts of the NNPC and other institutions and ministries the situation is unfortunately far from over.
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