Tuesday, 4 March 2014

JONATHAN DIVERTS ATTENTION FROM $20 BILLION PROBE BY INDUCING FAKE FUEL SCARCITY


The Spokesman for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Omar Farouk Ibrahim, has described the reappearance of long queues of vehicles at filling stations in Lagos as an artificially induced scarcity.

While speaking to Channels Television via telephone on Sunrise Daily, he said that there were absolutely no reasons for filling stations not to sell fuel to the people.
He revealed that there had been a similar situation in Abuja in the previous week and the special task force comprising NNPC, PPPRA, and the DPR went out to ensure that all the lines in Abuja were decimated.
He then stated that the NNPC did not believe that there was fuel scarcity in Lagos, but rather they believed that people were hoarding because some think that Government was going to raise the price of petrol, an assumption he said “there is no truth in”.
“Government is not, as far as we know, going to raise any price, and retailers who have fuel in their tanks should please release it for people to buy.”
The Executive Secretary of the Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria, MOMAN, Obafemi Olaore, had been quoted to have said, “The Federal Government through the PPPRA just released the 1st quarter allocation of fuel importation to petroleum marketers who will now commence importation of the product”. He also said that importers should have brought in the products in the next one month.

However, some information circulating early Tuesday 4th of March 2014 said that the Presidency is deliberately working in tandem with the marketers to make it hard for fuel to go round the major cities. This will keep the people more worried about getting fuel than getting the probe kick-started. 

MikeAtols will bring you latest as the news develops.

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