The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Ibe Kachikwu, says the Federal Government is working assiduously to revamp the country’s refineries to address the problems of lingering fuel crisis.

Kachikwu said this on Thursday in Abuja during a one-day public hearing of the National Assembly Joint Committees on Petroleum (Downstream), investigating the causes of recent fuel scarcity recorded across the country in December 2017.

The minister, who decried the poor state of the refineries over the years, condemned their inability to produce sufficient fuel for the country.

According to him, it is shameful that a country after over 35 years cannot produce sufficient fuel for its citizens.

“I have said that selling crude is a fairly wrong model which is akin to selling our agricultural products in the wrong way and nobody does that anywhere in the world anymore.

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Please just help me and shut up your mouth.

Legalise the so called 'illegal' refineries. Empower the stigmatized entrepreneurs. Reduce the insane cost of petrol. Ban petrol importation!

this is what we keep hearing each year....are you guys telling me since 1999 we can't fix our 4 refineries.....what about the huge funds we have recovers from looters..can't they fix it once and for all....can we borrow to fix them....or is someone not telling us what to do....

They should sell Nigeria and divide the money for everybody so we can all go our way

Abeg e don do!!!!!!