Petrol scarcity: Senate committee suspends recess, summons Kachikwu, NNPC GMD, others

IN a bid to end the ongoing fuel crisis and the untold hardship it is presently unleashing on Nigerians, Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, on Thursday, directed the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) to cut short its recess and immediately convene a meeting with industry stakeholders.

Chairman of the committee, Senator Kabiru Marafa, who disclosed this in Abuja, said following the directive, the committee had summoned the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu; Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr Maikanti Baru and other relevant stakeholders in the petroleum sector to a meeting on Thursday, January 4.

He further added that the meeting was meant to address the lingering fuel scarcity in the country in the last few weeks with a view to putting a complete stop to it.