Fuel Scarcity: Kachikwu Promises end to Crisis by next week

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After months of suffering and frustration, Nigerians might just be able to see light at the end of the tunnel, if the statements from Dr. Ibe Kachikwu is anything to go by that is.

Kachikwu speaking Wednesday on the lingering fuel scarcity at the State House at the end of the FEC meeting said the queues were expected to completely disappear by the end of next week

He also thanked Nigerians for their patience through the entire ordeal.

Kachikwu said “The queues are as a result of sabotage. Some people rather than sell products send them into interlands where they can sell at ridiculous prices and so you are having this price distortions where people are making a lot of money, some are internal and some are external but a lot of it is marketers trying to make quick returns on their investments wrongly.

“We have asked DPR to deploy officials to ensure products are sold at the right because is only through price stabilization that these system queues will disappear.

“As at today we are delivering about 1,200 trucks, by weekend we should be delivering same number of trucks, it will take a bit of days to even out but you can see improvement already. I hope by the end of next week with the refineries helping us to stay on course, every part of the country will get fuel.

“We thank President, NNPC staff and ministries who work night and day to enforce discipline.

“We thank Nigerians for their unbelievable level of patience, we are solving problem we met on ground and trying to find long term solution to it and urge Nigerians to report sabotage, where people are selling product on higher price because we all need to work collectively to make this thing go for good”, he said.

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