The Federal government has revealed that the lingering fuel crisis which has crippled socio-economic activities in the country will end next week.
The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, said that the queues were expected to completely disappear by the end of next week. He stated that the scarcity was as a result of sabotage,while thanking Nigerians for their patience so far.
Kachikwu also said the NNPC is delivering about 1,200 trucks daily and by next week hopefully every part of the country will get fuel.
“The queues are as a result of sabotage. Some people rather than sell products send them into hinterlands 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 it is only through price stabilization that these 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 the 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 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 added.
