The Senate, on Monday, March 28, summoned the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, to appear before it today, over the lingering fuel scarcity.
The Minister was summoned by the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), after the committee carried out on-the-spot assessment of the crisis in major filling stations within Abuja metropolis.
The committee’s Acting Chairman, Jibrin Barau, alongside two other members, said the Petroleum Minister must definitely appear before them today to explain what led to the situation and possibly proffer a lasting solution.
Barau, who addressed newsmen after the assessment of some filling stations, described the situation as not only pathetic but also bad, stressing that it must be urgently arrested.
He said the development made the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to call on the committee to swing into action as a way of bailing Nigerians out of the crisis.
He said: “This situation is very bad and unacceptable, hence the need for the minister to appear before us tomorrow (today), and unveil his plan of a way out to us. Even if he doesn’t have any plan yet out of the lingering problem, the Senate President and the entire members of the committee are more than ready to rub minds with him for that needed purpose.“
