Tuesday 29 March 2016

Fuel Crisis: Kachikwu Apologises, Says Queues To Disappear April 7

Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, in a dramatic u-turn on Tuesday, said that the long queues in the country’s petrol stations would disappear on Monday, April 7, 2016.  
Following backlashes which trailed his comments that the biting fuel scarcity across parts of the country would linger till May. Kachikwu disclosed this when he appeared before the Senate
committee on Petroleum (Downstream) over the fuel scarcity ravaging the country. The Minister said: “By 6th or 7th April, the long queues in filing stations would disappear.” He apologized to Nigerians over his statement that the biting fuel scarcity will linger till May.


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