Oby Ezekwesili, former minister
of education, says officials of the Nigerian National Petroleum Commission
(NNPC) are “running around” fillings stations to impress President Muhammadu
Buhari.
In the last few days, Maikanti
Baru, group managing director of NNPC, and some top officials of the corporation
have been going to filing stations over the petrol scarcity being experienced
in the country.
The scarcity has persisted for at
least three weeks.
Writing via her Twitter handle on
Wednesday, Ezekwesili wondered why the NNPC officials will be “straining”
themselves touring the filling stations.
The former vice-president of
World Bank (African region) said rather than make use of market forces in
seeking enduring solution to the scarcity, the officials have chosen to impress
the president against citizens’ interest.
She wrote: “Me: Why are officials
of government & NNPC annoyingly running around fuel stations? Is there no
one with basic training in economics anymore?
“Why are they straining
themselves with the workload that market forces can easily do for them?
“Me: They are running around to
enforce price control and impress president .@MBuhari , not the Citizens. They
know he hates the words, market forces, deregulation & liberalization but
loves command and control.
“He is clapping for them but the
Citizens are not smiling. #VerySad.”
While observing that the fuel
scarcity crisis is not abating, Ezekwesili also asked: “At what point would the
federal government, @AsoRock @MBuhari @ProfOsinbajo @IbeKachikwu @NNPCgroup GMD
embrace the truth of how market for goods like fuel functions?
“Only truth sets free.”
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