Fuel scarcity: Reps summon Alison-Madueke, NNPC, others

Worried by long queues in some filling stations in the country orchestrated by the fear of the removal of oil subsidy by the Federal Government, the House of Representatives has summoned the Petroleum Minister, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) and the Petroleum Product Pricing Regulatory Agency, (PPPRA). The lawmakers, while expressing concern yesterday over the matter on the floor of the House, also condemned the ugly trend which was said to have been caused by oil marketers. In their resolution, the lawmakers called on the Federal Government to quickly bring the situation under control in order not to make Nigerians believe that the scarcity was caused as part of government's resolve to remove fuel subsidy by all means.
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