Fuel Queues End From Today – Kachikwu

Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, has reassured that the lingering fuel scarcity will end in Abuja and Lagos today.

The minister, who was speaking in Abuja yesterday at a town hall meeting when he visited the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA), also stated that Kano, Katsina, Sokoto, Port Harcourt and Warri would also experience relief from the crisis as the queues would disappear at the weekend in those places.

While noting that strategic policies need to be taken to avoid recurrence of the crisis, he said, “There isn’t sufficient reason why Nigerians should suffer this much, we just need to take the right policies as difficult as it comes. We need to take the right policies to ensure that we do not have this recurrence of fuel scarcity. It’s been with us historically, but I don’t want that to define my legacy in the petroleum industry.

“Hopefully, by tomorrow (today) through Thursday, the fuel queues in Abuja should be over. Hopefully the same thing will happen to Lagos and thereafter, by the weekend, we should see Kano, Katsina, Sokoto and Port Harcourt and Warri get off this state.”