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Kachikwu, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, has given reason why
petroleum marketers allegedly responsible for hoarding fuel during the Yuletide
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n can’t be punished by government.
The Minister
said there was no single evidence that marketers were hoarding petroleum
products and as such, they could not be punished.
Kachikwu
made the disclosure after a Federal Government delegation led by the Chief of
Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Abba Kyari, and fuel marketers as well the
heads of the Department of State Services and the Nigeria Immigration Service,
and representatives of other paramilitary services met at the Presidential
Villa, Abuja.
Addressing
State House Correspondents after the meeting, Kachikwu said the parley was not
a fault-finding one but meant to find a lasting solution to the problem of fuel
scarcity.
According to
the Minister, “This is a major concern that Nigerians should not be made to
suffer, that Nigerians do not get through the kind of thing they went through
this December.
“We want to
find a lasting solution and that is what the committee will come out with in
the resolutions tomorrow (Wednesday).
“The thing
is even the Nigerians, who have suffered, will want to be sure that we find a
lasting solution and find evidential basis upon which to punish people.
“This is a
democratic government. I don’t have one (evidence) yet; if you have one, I will
like to have it.”
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