The Senate on Thursday ordered the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and all the agencies under the Ministry of Petroleum Resources to end petroleum products’ scarcity in the country within two weeks.
The upper chamber also said notable sharp practices including discrepancies in prices of petroleum products, especially Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) and hoarding of products should be stopped forthwith.
The Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum (Downstream), Senator Lilian Ekwunife, gave the order at a meeting with officials of the Ministry of Petroleum Resources and its parastatals in Abuja.
The Senate had on Tuesday asked its committee on Petroleum (Downstream) to investigate the circumstances surrounding the perennial fuel scarcity in the country.
Senator Ekwunife insisted that Nigerians are not interested in efforts being made by the NNPC, Pipeline Products Marketing Company (PPMC) and other agencies to ease the biting fuel scarcity in parts of the country.
What Nigerians wanted, she said, is availability of products nationwide.
She said, “We are therefore mandating the minister, the Permanent Secretary and other relevant agencies to end fuel scarcity in the country in two weeks. Discrepancies in prices of products must also end.”
Is it by giving your orders? Have u tried to put things in place to make it possible? These senators would just sit and be talking nonsense and expect miracle to happen. Wasteful sitting allowance. Bunch of confused things.
ReplyDeleteYour are too bias and so annoying. if the commander in chief of the federation/petroleum minister is on a pleasure cruise despite the huge fuel crisis that is even worse than that of the previous regime and you cant support the efforts of the senators then you are not even a Nigerian. The same you that is always at the top of your voice in the last regime! we are not even asking for a reduction in pump price which has gone down internationally, we are just asking for availability at the current price.
DeleteWho should be asked to end the fuel crisis? Minister of education? or the person that gave himself minister of Petroleum. If you are too busy why combine such sensitive office to that of the President. Better still his office should have been combine with the minister of defense giving his decades experience in the Military especially in the face of urgent security situation that is bedeviling the country and the world at large.
God, when would we ever have educated commentators!!
What do you want them to put in place order than to ask the minister in charge of that sector what is wrong and how does he intend to fix it or what the minister needs them to pass/amend so that the problem would not occur again. Hope you know that is why we have a minister of petroleum portfolio. Abi you want them to go and sell fuel on the road!!! i taya for your comments true.
DeleteThey summon the Minister of petroleum you said its disrespectful, the minister of state said he has not been given approval from his boss the minister of petroleum to appear before the senate. Now them done vex give ultimatum for the hard fuel crisis, still you day vex! waiting you want make them do for your mind? Bypass the minister of petroleum and start doing his work. I don't ever understand your point of reasoning.
DeleteTwo more weeks of scarcity ?
ReplyDeleteWhat kind of order is that?
Complete rubbish. Fellow Nigerians I think we have voted for a terrible change for the worst. We should rethink and vote for the better during the next election. This fuel scarcity should be taken as a national emergency and NNPC should be mandated to supply fuel within 24 hours or have a complete overhaul of its staff
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