The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu said Oil marketers in the country cannot be punished by the Federal Government over the lingering scarcity of Petroleum Motor Spirit (PMS) that marred Christmas and New Year celebration for obvious reasons. The Minister who stated this on Tuesday while addressing State House Correspondents after the meeting between the Presidency and stakeholders in the sector maintained that there is no evidence that marketers hoarded petroleum products during this period.
He explained that the meeting was not a fault-finding parley but a solution-finding effort targeted at preventing similar occurrence in the future.
“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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