Coming in the midst of another spell of fuel crisis heating up the polity, the setting up of a 14-man steering committee to enforce petroleum products supply does not portend any cheer for embattled Nigerians who have to contend with the attendant dislocation and galloping inflation.
The government’s move is indeed seen as a race against time after seeming helplessness and criminal conspiracy of silence by authorities concerned that signpost an administration that is not only derelict in its remits but also empathy-deficient in its conducts. Though in an awkward manner, Nigerians have been given heads-up on a coming era without the vexatious fuel subsidy policy.
For no tangible reason, fuel queues started emerging at gas stations. Officials first blamed it on panic-buyers, then road constructions! It soon shifted to the turn of the Department of State Security to huff and puff empty threats at imaginary hoarders of petrol. While the State was chasing shadows, pump prices were selling at significantly higher rates nationwide.
The minister’s words meant nothing to the street. Interestingly, the NNPCL retail outlet, Zone 1, Wuse, and NNPCL Mega Station – a walking distance from Mr. Sylva’s office – on that day sold PMS at N194/litre as against the disputed N185. Other petroleum marketers in the FCT dispensed theirs at N195 to N280 per litre – where available. Amid long queues of desperate buyers that now routinely pass the night at filling stations, the product is dispensed at between N200 to N800/litre.
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