Buhari summons Baru over fuel scarcity
President Muhammadu Buhari summoned Maikanti Baru, group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), to the presidential villa in Abuja on Saturday.
The presidency disclosed this in a message posted on its Twitter handle, saying Buhari is very concerned about the hardship which Nigerians have been subjected to in the last three weeks.
Tonight: President @MBuhari meeting with GMD @NNPCgroup, @DrMKBaru, regarding the fuel supply situation nationwide. The President is very concerned about the situation and all efforts are going into a speedy resolution. Update soon.
— Presidency Nigeria (@NGRPresident) December 23, 2017
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Fuel queues at filling stations have compounded traffic woes in major parts of the country.
While black marketers are smiling to the bank, many motorists have spent nights at filling stations.
NNPC has blamed the situation on marketers, giving repeated assurances that normalcy would soon be restored.
The presidency later uploaded a video of Baru addressing Nigerians.
Watch:
UPDATE #fuelscarcity: We are appealing to fuel marketers to desist from hoarding and profiteering. There is enough supply for the country. There are also no plans to increase fuel prices. @NNPCGroup remains committed to ensuring that petrol sells for a maximum of N145 per Litre pic.twitter.com/STSkvNL2bC
Advertisement— Govt of Nigeria (@AsoRock) December 23, 2017
Thank you disciplinary president muhammadu buhari, the commander in chief of the fedral republic of Nigeria.
this is enouhg proving to responsible Nigerian who believes in better days soon to Nigerian and Nigeria, my president honestly , those so called majour oil marketers deserve sweeming in the for
an attempt to rubbishing the present administration with the current trending, please , dont relent in fishing them out bco some of are warming up theirs dirty political ambition.
Is this one of the democratic devidence and mind sir, its not a must to be democratised this way , with dubiouse characters in the name democracy.
thank you for much more committment.