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Nigeria's annual visitor, fuel scarcity, is here again.

The dreaded queues have returned and valuable man hours are again being wasted at fuel stations. The fact that Nigeria is an oil producing nation just crowns the ridiculousness of the situation.

Citizens are blaming President Muhammadu Buhari, who is also the petroleum minister, and Minister of State, Ibe Kachikwu, who is also the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC) for the crisis.

Kachikwu on the other hand, placed the blame on the shoulders of Nigerians.

“…The absence of product is not the issue. What is the issue is the usual panic-buying by Nigerians… Again, there are people who store products and the DPR has sealed a lot of such stations in the last one week,” the minister said on November 11, 2015, after he was sworn in by Buhari.

The government cannot exonerate itself of responsibility for the crisis, but the real culprits behind the scarcity are ordinary, everyday Nigerians.

It is Nigerians who own petrol stations that hoard fuel in order to sell at a higher price later.

The attendants and station managers who charge a “selling fee” because they agreed to sell you fuel are all Nigerians.

Those people who buy fuel, adulterate it and then sell at cutthroat “black market” prices, you know them right? They’re Nigerians too.

The most notorious fuel-scarcity causing Nigerians are the opportunistic and unpatriotic oil marketers.

Marketers have held citizens of the country to ransom many times and all for their own personal gain. The most recent example is the disastrous fuel scarcity of May 2015 which practically shut the country down.

Fuel was being sold for up to N500 per litre, electricity was non-existent and people were dying but the marketers were smiling to the bank without a care in the world.

It took the intervention of one of their own, the Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas, Ifeanyi Ubah, to stop the scarcity.

“Capital Oil and Gas has watched with so much pain, the suffering and hardship our citizens have been subjected to as a result of scarcity of petrol, diesel, aviation fuel and house hold kerosene,” Ubah said in a statement released on Sunday, May 24, 2015.

“We are deeply pained to hear that hospitals cannot perform surgeries, laboratories are unable to carry out much needed tests especially for emergency patients leaving such patients at risk of dying, radio stations are shutting down, communication is being affected as MTN and other telecommunications company have announced an impending shut down while homes, offices and key facilities nationwide are experiencing blackouts.

“We are constrained at this point and have decided that two wrongs cannot make a right. We will not be part of this sabotage against our fatherland. Therefore from this minute, we shall take the risk of opening our facilities and commence swift loading and distribution of products Nationwide,” he added.

Ubah’s action eventually led the marketers to call off their strike and supply fuel but that wasn’t the only thing he got right. Ubah, in his statement, described the marketers’ refusal to sell fuel despite the shutdown of the country as sabotage and that is exactly what it was.

In a saner clime, the marketers wouldn’t get away with their despicable and unconscionable action, but this is Nigeria, you can get away with anything if you really want to.

The fuel scarcity is a terrible and shameful occurrence that is being fed by the unfortunate desire of many Nigerians to benefit from the suffering of their fellow citizens.

The government is not really Nigeria’s biggest problem, Nigerians are.

Until we stop seeing one another like vultures see a dying animal, we will make no progress as a country.

It is hoped that President Buhari and Dr Kachikwu will take the necessary steps to stop the fuel scarcity trend once and for all and in so doing depart from the ways of the Nigerians who were in charge before them.


http://pulse.ng/local/frankly-speaking-with-jola-sotubo-nigerians-are-to-blame-for-fuel-scarcity-id4391582.html?utm_campaign=daily-2015-11-25&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

And the government dat refuse to create jobs are blame-free

qualityovenbake:
i no too get craze O, but dat chic dey 2 insultive.

She dey find attention, omotola fukup! She for no reply am at all.

Nigeria's annual visitor, fuel scarcity, is here again.

The dreaded queues have returned and valuable man hours are again being wasted at fuel stations. The fact that Nigeria is an oil producing nation just crowns the ridiculousness of the situation.

Citizens are blaming President Muhammadu Buhari, who is also the petroleum minister, and Minister of State, Ibe Kachikwu, who is also the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, (NNPC) for the crisis.

Kachikwu on the other hand, placed the blame on the shoulders of Nigerians.

“…The absence of product is not the issue. What is the issue is the usual panic-buying by Nigerians… Again, there are people who store products and the DPR has sealed a lot of such stations in the last one week,” the minister said on November 11, 2015, after he was sworn in by Buhari.

The government cannot exonerate itself of responsibility for the crisis, but the real culprits behind the scarcity are ordinary, everyday Nigerians.

It is Nigerians who own petrol stations that hoard fuel in order to sell at a higher price later.

The attendants and station managers who charge a “selling fee” because they agreed to sell you fuel are all Nigerians.

Those people who buy fuel, adulterate it and then sell at cutthroat “black market” prices, you know them right? They’re Nigerians too.

The most notorious fuel-scarcity causing Nigerians are the opportunistic and unpatriotic oil marketers.

Marketers have held citizens of the country to ransom many times and all for their own personal gain. The most recent example is the disastrous fuel scarcity of May 2015 which practically shut the country down.

Fuel was being sold for up to N500 per litre, electricity was non-existent and people were dying but the marketers were smiling to the bank without a care in the world.

It took the intervention of one of their own, the Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas, Ifeanyi Ubah, to stop the scarcity.

“Capital Oil and Gas has watched with so much pain, the suffering and hardship our citizens have been subjected to as a result of scarcity of petrol, diesel, aviation fuel and house hold kerosene,” Ubah said in a statement released on Sunday, May 24, 2015.

“We are deeply pained to hear that hospitals cannot perform surgeries, laboratories are unable to carry out much needed tests especially for emergency patients leaving such patients at risk of dying, radio stations are shutting down, communication is being affected as MTN and other telecommunications company have announced an impending shut down while homes, offices and key facilities nationwide are experiencing blackouts.

“We are constrained at this point and have decided that two wrongs cannot make a right. We will not be part of this sabotage against our fatherland. Therefore from this minute, we shall take the risk of opening our facilities and commence swift loading and distribution of products Nationwide,” he added.

Ubah’s action eventually led the marketers to call off their strike and supply fuel but that wasn’t the only thing he got right. Ubah, in his statement, described the marketers’ refusal to sell fuel despite the shutdown of the country as sabotage and that is exactly what it was.

In a saner clime, the marketers wouldn’t get away with their despicable and unconscionable action, but this is Nigeria, you can get away with anything if you really want to.

The fuel scarcity is a terrible and shameful occurrence that is being fed by the unfortunate desire of many Nigerians to benefit from the suffering of their fellow citizens.

The government is not really Nigeria’s biggest problem, Nigerians are.

Until we stop seeing one another like vultures see a dying animal, we will make no progress as a country.

It is hoped that President Buhari and Dr Kachikwu will take the necessary steps to stop the fuel scarcity trend once and for all and in so doing depart from the ways of the Nigerians who were in charge before them.


http://pulse.ng/local/frankly-speaking-with-jola-sotubo-nigerians-are-to-blame-for-fuel-scarcity-id4391582.html?utm_campaign=daily-2015-11-25&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

NgeneUkwenu:
Anybody Writing any epistle or criticizing Buhari @ this juncture is just a hypocrite! All these are just teething problems expected when a radical change is being introduced!



It shall all phase out and the dividend delivered!

Corruption has been fought to a StandStill! We no longer hear millions, Billions and Trillion being frittered away! That is the first step. The Next Step is the Budget Of Change estimated @ 8Trillion with Capital Expenditure PeGged at over 50%. There is no way Nigerians Will Not Smile!

Relax, endure the temporary pain! Buhari Will AND MUST Deliver!

No worry u go tire one day.

qualityovenbake:
that girl is rude. Omotola was even polite with her response.

No be everybody get craze like u na.

When they face the real terrorists they will be quivering! they only show strength on arm-less, harmless citizens.

If them give dem, dem go kii denselves finish.

Change!

PassingShot:
Warning: Let no wailer see this as an opportunity to wail uncontrollably. This article is in line with my personal resolve to call the president to order on this forum whenever he missteps. Besides, GEJ was not an option in the last election. So, please keep your sermon of “we told you”, “we warned you”, “Buhari is incompetent” and other bla bla blas to yourself.

Fuel Scarcity: Deafening Silence from the president
One area that our hopes and expectations of good result of Buhari’s presidency were high is in the petroleum industry. Apart from the fact that the president has failed to find a permanent solution to the issue of oil subsidy in the last six months he has presided over the affairs of Nigeria, he has also failed to provide petrol to Nigerians at the regular pump price of N87 and with ease.

To say that the current situation of fuel scarcity has brought untold hardship and resulted in irreplaceable loss of productive time is an understatement. The more worrisome is the fact that the president who doubles as the nation’s minister of petroleum has not deemed it fit and necessary to address the nation (through TV or through one of his media aides) on the hardship citizens are passing through and also use the opportunity to apologize and assuage our anger. This silence is too deafening to be ignored and I hereby condemn it in its entirety, the president’s handling of the fuel scarcity we have at our hands. He should as a matter of national urgency address the nation on what is happening, the government’s efforts to normalize it and above all the long term solution (if not permanent) to the problem. Anything short of this amounts to taking Nigerians for a ride. Pure and simple!

Excessive Overseas Trip
Another area I think the president has erred in recent times is that of gallivanting abroad at every given opportunity. When ministers had not come on board I could understand the need for him to personally attend to those numerous summits and conferences but with the coming of all ministers I’d expected that there will be a drastic reduction in such journeys. The latest one to Iran for Gas Exporting Countries didn’t require his personal presence plus that of Ibe Kachikwu (Min. of state for petroleum) and Tunde Fashola (Min of Power, Works and Housing). He could have let Kachikwu and Fashola attend that one and if he must attend he should have let Ibe Kachikwu stay at home tending to the fuel crisis at hand.

As if the gaffe of the Iran trip was not enough, I read moment ago that the president is due to lead a delegation to Paris on Climate Change! Now, this one is a trip too many in my opinion. We have more pressing issues at home than climate change. Besides, we have a minister of Environment who can lead a Nigerian delegation if we must attend. Why our president must reduce himself to “Ajala travels all over the world” in the face of enormous challenges at the home front beats my imagination.

Dear PMB, you have a chance to prove to Nigerians that we did not make a mistake in electing you president. If you however choose to do as it pleases you even in the face of sufferings of the common man, 2019 is not far away.

May God Bless Nigeria!

Welcome to the club.

Elephant!

buzquet:
Buhari won't say this

He did during his military era.

My shuga does!

How many bags did Jesus give John before he was baptised? Op now re ask urself that question.

Rich4god:
It's time to close gate.... we don't want anybody joining the wailing camp....

Why u make me laugh na, I get cough o!

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What about onitsha- enugu? Port harcourt- aba, enugu- abakaliki? Enugu- markurdi?

What about ELEPHANT?

Did russia bomb turkey?

englishmart:
fight them. Their properties aren't important

Abi? The NA should stop clearing burning their bushes for them, collecting their stick guns and start killing the bastards!

Tinubu! Do kill baba quick abeg.

ORACLE1975:
Fear well

U go fear fear na! #Bullet

PassingShot:
If you're jobless, don't worry. Yours will soon find you. Claim it!

Hehehe. Am not jobless passingshot! But you shldnt joke or promote lies like this, some nigerians are really hoping for this change and some r already heart broken.

PassingShot:
Latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) show that a total of 475,180 new jobs were created in the third quarter of 2015.

In its third quarter survey, the NBS explained that this represents an increase of 236.1 per cent, compared with the previous quarter, and 36 per cent compared to the third quarter of 2014.

According to the Bureau, the increase in the number of jobs was driven mainly by informal sector jobs, which accounted for 90.2 per cent.

The labour force population increased to 75.9 million from 74 million in the second quater, representing an increase in the labour force by 2.60 per cent.

It was followed by formal sector jobs, which accounted for 8.8 per cent, while the public sector generated 4,818 jobs, representing 1.01 per cent of jobs in the period under review.

The informal sector accounted for over 90 per cent of total jobs in the third quater, and were predominantly in rural agricultural activities.
http://www.channelstv.com/2015/11/23/over-400000-jobs-created-in-third-quarter-nbs/?utm_source=&utm_medium=twitter

More paper achievements. None physical, where r the jobs??

donTbone:
What I know and think about Kogi Election!

After Audu's death, I knew it wasn't just 'DEATH', he was killed intentionally. But I asked who might it be
Lemme start from here...Audu was actualy nominated as the APC candidate because he gained ground in Kogi state and he was really popular, not because APC of the state eventually wanna make him go for the govnorship election or because he was a very good man, NO!. And in that case, for them (APC) to win, they need someone who will win the election.

Before his death, though the election wasn't concluded yet, am sure APC won.


Now My View about the incident.

Checking from what happened, we cant say Audu was killed by an opposition party but by his own party. Looking closely, I guess their plan is:
If Audu should win the election, since they actually want his deputy as the gov, the best is to kill Audu, make his deputy be the gov then everything goes fine. But it backfired. The election is inconclusive and I don't think if there is a rerun of the voting (which I don't think there will be), APC might lose ground to PDP I Kogi state.

But my question is still...
WHY WILL THEY WANT HIM DEAD?

Because he is a very evil man!

God does not sleep! That's all I will say.

Dnt joke with death o

Its expected!

Onayekan shld be the mediator. Lubbish!

WukedP:
No weapon formed against me and my family, friends, loved ones, their lover ones will prosper

No be by 'no weapon'! Call them n tell them to be careful period!