GEJ's administration responsible for the lingering fuel scarcity - Lai Mohammed
Minister of Information Lai Mohammed says that the last administration
is responsible for the lingering Fuel scarcity currently being
experienced Nationwide. He said Nigerians are paying for the sins of the
last administration. He said this while addressing state house
correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting today
December 21st.
“One of the reasons for the fuel scarcity was the inability of the last
government to make adequate provision for fuel subsidy. We do face some
other logistic problems but majorly, we are paying for the sins of the
last administration.
What I will be telling Nigerians is that what we met
on ground is such that we are paying for the sins of the last
administration. I am being very serious. You remember that about two
weeks ago, we had to go to the National Assembly for a supplementary
budget of N674 billion. Of that figure, N522billion was for arrears of
fuel subsidy which was incurred as far back as August last year. The
solution is what you have seen us doing. The first thing we have done
now is to make sure that unlike before when the marketers used to import
the major percentage of the fuel. NNPC has been involved in
importation, because some of the marketers had stopped importing for a
couple of months. If you see any fuel anywhere today, it is imported by
the NNPC. We also inherited the vandalisation of the pipelines which has
made it impossible for us to even transport the fuel. In tanks today we
have 14 days reserve and off tank we have 10 days reserve. The issue is
not non-availability of the product it is the distribution, because of
pipelines that have been vandalised and the gridlock in Lagos. It takes
about five days for anybody to take fuel with tanker in Lagos. As at two
days ago this matter has been resolved. The Mosinmi pipeline has been
secured and it has lead to the improvement in the distribution, “he
said.
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