Presidency on Tuesday in Abuja
summoned critical stakeholders in the nation’s oil sector and the leadership of
security agencies in the country to end the scarcity of petrol in the country.
The meeting, presided by the
Chief of Staff to the President, Alhaji Abba Kyari, is being held behind closed
doors.
The meeting is also being
attended by the Minister of Petroleum, Mr Ibe Kachikwu, Director-General of the
Directorate of State Service (DSS), Lawal Daura, and the Group Managing
Director (GMD) of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
Maikanti Baru.
Others attending the meeting are
the Comptroller-General of Immigration, Alhaji Muhammed Babandede, some
presidential aides and other stakeholders in the oil industry.
President Muhammadu Buhari had on
Jan. 1, during a nationwide broadcast, expressed sadness over the unnecessary
hardships inflicted on Nigerians during the Christmas and New Year celebrations
following acute petrol scarcity across the country.
He attributed the hardships to
the activities of a few but heartless individuals working within the nation’s
oil and gas sector.
Buhari, however, reiterated the
determination of his administration to get to the root of the persistent petrol
scarcity, and ensure that whichever groups were behind this manipulated
blackmail would be prevented from doing so again.
The scarcity is said to be caused
by greedy marketers who tried to take undue advantage of the high inter-state
movements during the season.
However, the long queues in
filling stations in Abuja and Lagos have disappeared in the last two days as
promised by the GMD of NNPC, Maikanti Baru.
Baru also on Friday vowed that
Nigerians would not go into 2018 with the scarcity of petroleum products.
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