The House of Representatives on Tuesday urged the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) to stop the fake gasoline scarcity within the next week in order to alleviate Nigerians’ suffering.
The Nigerian Midstream Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission was also urged by the House to seek participation from the Nigeria Police Force and the Department of State Services (DSS) to guarantee that fuel is supplied at the regulated price and in all retail outlets.
These resolutions came after the acceptance of a motion of urgent public significance titled “Urgent necessity for the government to resolve the present gasoline crisis” at plenary by Saidu Abdullahi (APC, Niger).
In presenting the motion, Abdullahi stated that in recent months, Nigerians have been forced into immeasurable misery as a result of the ongoing petrol scarcity, which has affected economic operations and made the country’s already difficult circumstances much more challenging.
The member noted that the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) offered justifications for the gasoline scarcity.
“Firstly, when the scarcity resurfaced at the peak of the rainy season in October this year, NMDPRA said ‘the fuel scarcity in Abuja and other northern states was caused by rainfall which submerged the greater part of Lokoja, including the highway leading to Abuja, a development that grounded all vehicular movements along that route too.
“Soon after floods/rains receded in Lokoja and the petrol scarcity continued, the president of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) said the situation has continued to persist because of the supply gap created by the blockade in Lokoja. The IPMAN affirmed that there was enough product in the depots and that the lingering scarcity was only caused by the break in supply of the product.
“When the scarcity continued, and all the excuses advanced by the stakeholders watered down, the national operations controller of IPMAN advanced another reason and argued that the scarcity was because of an unsteady supply of the products,” he said.
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