Nigeria has witnessed a
shortage of fuel since June.
Nigerians should stop
complaining about fuel scarcity
and suffer the pains of it
because the scarcity was
caused by their demand for
transparency in the petroleum
sector, the Petroleum Minister,
Diezani Alison-Madueke, has
said.
Mrs. Alison-Madueke, who said
this on Wednesday in Abuja
while addressing journalists,
said the demands by Nigerians
for transparency and
accountability coupled with the
government’s determination to
ensure same was the cause of
the sufferings.
“We cannot eat our cakes and
have it. We cannot keep calling
out for transparency and
accountability and pointing at
corruption if we are not
prepared to bear some of the
hardship that will obviously
come when you are trying to
clean up a sector,” the minister
said.
Mrs. Madueke was, however,
not done with blaming
Nigerians for the fuel scarcity,
she also claimed that the
government has already
reduced the scarcity being
witnessed.
“The verifications were being
done; payments could not be
made by Finance and I think
they have said that severally,
but the verifications have been
done; payments are now being
made and like I said the
queues have actually begun to
go down,” she said.
In Abuja where Mrs. Madueke
claims the scarcity has
reduced and where she is
based as minister, motorists
still spend several hours on
petrol queues which
sometimes are over 200m
long; with many petrol stations
not even selling the product.
Black market operators can be
seen selling the product at
over 100 per cent the
approved price with their
transparent jerry-cans
everywhere in the Nigerian
capital.
The minister however gave
Nigerians some hope as she
said the scarcity should
disappear before the festive
period.
She said already the ministry
had released petroleum
products from its strategic
reserve to reduce shortages.
“We too, on NNPC side we
have pushed out a lot of our
strategic reserve in a bid to
ensure that people are not
overtly put out in terms of fuel
scarcity. And if not for this
recent union issue I think it
would have been completely
alleviated, but I am sure that
over the next few days it will
die down completely.
“We are doing everything we
can on ground to ensure that
this Christmas will be like last
Christmas, as well,” she said.
Mrs. Alison-Madueke attributed
shortages being experienced in
almost all parts of the country
to stringent measures being
taken by the Federal Ministry
of Finance in the payment of
subsidy claims.
She assured that only genuine
subsidy claims by marketers
would be entertained in line
with the transparency and
accountability policy of the
government.
“Initially, the queues came out
of the whole fuel subsidy issue
and the fact of course that
verifications of certain
amounts and certain
marketers’ claims were being
made very stringently and this
had to be done.
The minister also assured that
the NNPC would continue to
ensure a level playing field for
all interested marketers and
operators in the oil and gas
sector of the economy.

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This frogged eyes woman must have smoked dried pumpkin leaves! Biaaatch!!

This is like telling Nigerians to shut their mouths. Acording to Diezani's analogy, if you(Nigerians) demand for transparency and accountability in the subsidy scheme you should also be set to bear the consequences, if you had not demanded for transparency you wouldn't be experiencing scarcity and hike in price. Guess we should suffer for a crime committed By thieving government officials and their cronies. How many PPPRA, DPR, Ministry of Finance, DMO, customs, CBN and NNPC officials who were active accomplices in the monumental fraud have been sacked and prosecuted? How can there be transparency and accountability when we still have the same fraudulent officials retaining their positions? Well, fuel scarcity is a part of Fresh Air!

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berem: This frogged eyes woman must have smoked dried pumpkin leaves! Biaaatch!!

Hahahaha..lol. But is she wrong? We all askd for the cleanup of d subsidy payment scheme, verificatn of real subsidy claims and d prosecution of d thiefs. These are exactly what the govt is doing meticulously; and d main cause of d bottle-necks in supply cos ALL d marketers insistd that they wud not import (or that they wont be able to) cos of banks refusal to lend dem money, in a grand blackmail to force d govt to pay dem moni b4 verification (which failed); verificatn is finished now and sm of d marketers are bn paid now so they are expectd to start importing fuel.... Whateva spin PT usd in reporting dis and distorting her intentions is cos its d Propaganda mouthpiece of sm ppl, and shldn't be surprising

Wow so we shouldn't ask for transparency and efficiency at the same time? FIRE THIS WOMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What happened to our locally refined oil? She told us this January that our refineries are at 60% refining capacity that TAM will bring them to 90% by the end of 2012, instead what we are seeing is scarcity!!!!


NIGERIANS GET MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TAKE TO THE STREET; SHUT DOWN NIGERIA!!!!! DEMAND FOR YOUR RIGHT; BILLIONS OF DOLLARS LEAVE YOUR SHORES EVERYDAY NIGERIANS!!

IMF/WORLD BANK PUPPETS ARE RULING US GET MAD NIGERIANS THIS IS TOO MUCH!!!

taharqa: Hahahaha..lol. But is she wrong? We all askd for the cleanup of d subsidy payment scheme, verificatn of real subsidy claims and d prosecution of d thiefs. These are exactly what the govt is doing meticulously; and d main cause of d bottle-necks in supply cos ALL d marketers insistd that they wud not import (or that they wont be able to) cos of banks refusal to lend dem money, in a grand blackmail to force d govt to pay dem moni b4 verification (which failed); verificatn is finished now and sm of d marketers are bn paid now so they are expectd to start importing fuel.... Whateva spin PT usd in reporting dis and distorting her intentions is cos its d Propaganda mouthpiece of sm ppl, and shldn't be surprising

Shut it abegi !

So we shouldn't demand for transparency.

LWKMD.

This Government don kill person o.

emmatok:

Shut it abegi !

So we shouldn't demand for transparency.

LWKMD.

This Government don kill person o.

Jesus Christ! When did i say we shldn't demand for transparency? Abeg, which comment did u read and then decide to quote mine as if u were responding it?...plz o