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The Citizens Awareness Against Corruption and Social Vices Initiative has given the Group Managing Director/CEO of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPC, Mele Kyari, to bring an end to the lingering fuel scarcity in the country.
In a letter dated March 3, signed by Olumuyiwa Onlede, YTLC executive director and addressed to Mr Kyari, the group vowed to call for his sack at the expiry the warning.
According to the group, the ultimatum became necessary in order to ease the suffering of Nigerians who has been on fuel queues for weeks unend.
The group noted that besides Mr Kyari, the crop of old hands in the company right now could deliver the desired change as envisaged by the President and Nigerians.
The letter read in part: “So our resolution is to give you a seven (7) days ultimatum after which if the fuel queue fails to disappears nationwide we will be left with no option than to make the president see reasons why he must wield the big stick by relieving you of your appointment.
The group lamented that for close to two months now Nigerians are being taken back to the era of military dictatorship where the most productive hours of their day is spent in filling stations to get fuel for their vehicles.
“According to you, the crisis was created due to importation of adulterated fuel into the country by some marketers which they denied but as far as we are concerned NNPC Limited is the major stakeholder in the energy chain and whatever argument being pushed forward by you does not hold water as it is obvious that some actions and inactions of NNPC limited is ultimately the reason and why bad fuel found its way into the country under your nose and someone must take responsibility and our conclusion due to the sampled opinion of Nigerians is that NNPC limited is complicit.
“On the 16th of February 2022, you appeared before the House of Representatives Committee on Petroleum and as the head of the company and gave an assurance that the long queues will varnish within a week, but three weeks down the line the situation is no better.
“You must, therefore, take responsibility for all the actions and intentional act of sabotage in the petrol supply chain both in the NNPC limited and her vendors, having caused Nigerians pains and damages to their vehicles without plan of compensation from any quarters even the aviation sector is not spared by the scarcity.
“Our investigation in all 36 states of the federation and the FCT revealed that about 40% of security vehicles especially that of the police are at every point in time queuing in the few filling stations dispensing fuel thereby unable to perform their duty due to unavailability of fuel.
“This scenario drastically increased the rate of small crimes by 20% nationwide and this is as a result of negligence on the part of NNPC limited that failed to think outside the box by making special arrangement for security vehicles to get fuel without waste of time in NNPC retail outlets nationwide,” the statement said.
