Commenting on the lingering fuel scarcity, the
minister said "most of the marketers were
blackmailing the government and by extension,
Nigerians.
According to her, Nigerians should rise up and ask
questions why the marketers reneged on their
promise a fortnight ago after they openly told the
entire country that they had sorted out their
differences with the government and that they were
going to end the scarcity.

She said soon after that open declaration, the
marketers went back and shut down their supply
chains, noting that they had requested her to sign
that government was going to pay them N159 billion
as foreign exchange differentials out of the N200
billion claims they were making.

The Finance Minister stated that the marketers, who
had earlier agreed with the setting up of an ad hoc
committee made up of their representatives, those of
Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency
(PPPRA), Debt Management Office (DMO), and
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to verify their claims
suddenly backed out.

According to her, she could not sign off monies that
she would find difficult to explain to Nigerians later,
urging the populace to rise up and challenge the
marketers.
While applauding some marketers that have
demonstrated patriotic disposition to this current
crisis, the minister noted that many marketers had
resorted to black market operations and had kept on
fleecing Nigerians and smiling to the bank" NGOZI OKONJO IWEALA

No be lie... will be back if it makes fp

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