FG Gives Kachikwu Deadline To Address Fuel Scarcity

The Federal Government has given the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu a deadline to see to the fuel scarcity causing queues at filling stations across Nigeria.

Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information and Culture made this known on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting.

He also established that the government has no plans to increase the pump price of petrol.

“The council gave him (Kachikwu) a matching order that this fuel scarcity should not last beyond this weekend and they are going to work very hard to ensure that it is curtailed,” Mohammed said, adding that “the government has no intention at all to increase the pump price of PMS.”

He said that Kachikwu had briefed the council on the current fuel scarcity and assured the public that the country has “enough products till next one month or even till the end of January”.