Fuel Scarcity - Senate to investigate the cause behind petrol shortage

Posted by Nicholas on Thu 21st May, 2015 - tori.ng

The seemingly unending fuel scarcity has resulted in the matter being probed. The Legislative upper house has ordered a committee to look into the situation and come up with a solution.

The Nigerian Senate has revealed they are set to start an investigation into the current fuel scarcity that has lasted for over a month.

The upper legislative house, on Thursday, May 21, 2015, instructed its committees on Petroleum Resources (Upstream and Downstream) to look into the crisis.

The order was given after Deputy Senate Majority Leader, Abdul Ningi urged the Senate to pay serious attention to the biting fuel crisis which is causing untold hardship to many Nigerians.

“Ningi’s prayers are simple and straightforward. He is asking us, as representatives of the people, to direct our committees on upstream and downstream to find out what is currently going on in the oil sector and possibly find a way of addressing it,” Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, said.

“In that regard, we now ask our committees on Petroleum Resources (Upstream and Downstream), to find out what is going on and what the government is doing about it and report back on Tuesday next week. That is our wish,” he added.

Meanwhile, the fuel crisis has taken a turn for the worse as two major petroleum unions, Petroleum and National Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) and the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), have also gone on strike in a bid to air their grievances with the Federal Government.