Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has called for the swift investigation
of the Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) scam.
Falana made this call during Channels Television’s Sunday
Politics programme, saying there is no better time to probe petrol scam than
now.
“It is high time the importation scam was investigated. I am
not talking of the joke that is going on in the National Assembly. The media
must help civil society organisations to expose the fraud,” he said.
There have been reports that a $6 billion debt the Nigerian
National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) owes petrol suppliers has worsened
petrol scarcity in Nigeria.
Recall that the NNPCL on Sunday finally admitted
the company’s significant debt to petrol suppliers, saying it posed a threat to
the sustainability of fuel supply.
“Once the government begins to speak about affordability and
sustainability in response to growing queues at filling stations, there are
problems,” Falana stated.
According to the Senior Advocate of Nigeria, there is no
full disclosure on the part of the government on subsidy on petrol, adding that
Nigeria can’t spend “$2.9bn to fix the refineries” yet the dates for the
resumption of production at the refineries have been constantly shifted.
The legal luminary threatened to sue those responsible for
the fixing of state-owned refineries should they announce another postponement.
The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria,
IPMAN, had said the landing cost per litre of petrol has made it impossible for
petrol marketers to import the essential commodity as was done by the NNPCL.
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