As scarcity worsens across nation, grounds economic activities
The Coalition of Northern Groups, (CNG), has alleged that some persons created the lingering fuel scarcity to force Nigerians into accepting the failed fuel subsidy removal of the federal government.
The Coalition also alleged that some influential people in the Presidency, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Ministry of Petroleum Resources as well as some marketers, have been orchestrating chaos in a coordinated manner in the petroleum sector after they failed to remove fuel subsidy.
In an issued statement signed by the Director, Strategic Communication of CNG, Sama’ila Musa, the Coalition called for the prosecution of those involved in importing the adulterated fuel that caused damage to the vehicles of unsuspecting Nigerians.
The CNG said the President should understand that some people very close to him and his appointees are the architects of the current fuel paucity in Nigeria.
The Northern Coalition, therefore, said Nigerians view this move as the ultimate betrayal and breach of trust unless the President acts swiftly in the interest of the people to reverse this ugly trend.
CNG noted that the Senate President should know that all their efforts and support in retaining the subsidy is being scattered by the very people serving the government.
The CNG, therefore, called on Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC), National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), and all other stakeholders against fuel subsidy removal to start strategising and mobilising for a grand nationwide protest to demand the resignation of the top management of NNPC, Minister of Petroleum and all other functionaries creating this recurrent problem in the oil sector.
The group added that it shall commence mobilisation in earnest “so that all hands must be on deck to confront this problem of national significance”.
Meanwhile, the fuel scarcity worsened across the country at the weekend despite repeated assurances from the Government that the crisis would soon be over.
Queues persisted in Abuja, Lagos and several other cities throughout last week and early yesterday, as people scrambled to get petrol for their cars and their electricity generators.
The crisis, which has lingered for weeks and in some places like Abuja, for several months continued despite the federal government saying it has sufficient stock of petroleum products for distribution across the country.
