Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, has proclaimed that Nigerians were currently paying for the wrongdoings of the past government.
He said the Jonathan government owed oil advertisers huge obligations in oil endowment installments, such that they have quit importing the item in the last couple of months, thus the gnawing lack.
Asked by State House reporters to disclose the shortage to the country, Lai said: "What I will be telling Nigerians is that what we met on ground is such that we are paying for the wrongdoings of the last organization".
"I am by and large intense. You recall that around two weeks back, we needed to go to the National Assembly for a supplementary spending plan of N674 billion. Of that figure, N522billion was for unpaid debts of fuel endowment which was brought about as far back as August a year ago".
"A reason for the fuel shortage was the failure of the last government to make sufficient procurement for fuel endowment".
"We do face some other logistic issues however significantly, we are paying for the wrongdoings of the last organization".Asked what the arrangement the legislature was currently proffering, the Minister said:"The first thing we have done now is to ensure that not at all like before when the advertisers used to import the real rate of the fuel, NNPC has been included in importation".
"This is on the grounds that a portion of the advertisers had quit importing for two or three months. On the off chance that you see any fuel anyplace today, it is foreign made by the NNPC".
"We additionally acquired the vandalisation of the pipelines which has made it unthinkable for us to try and transport the fuel. In tanks today we have 14 days hold and off tank we have 10 days save".
"The issue is not non-accessibility of the item; it is the appropriation in view of pipelines that have been vandalized and the gridlock in Lagos".
"It takes around five days for anyone to bring fuel with tanker in Lagos. As at two days back this matter has been determined. The Mosinmi pipeline has been secured and it has prompted the change in the distribution."Source:- The Nation
