KACHIKWU FUEL IS COMING THIS WEEKEND

It will be great injustice if this blog is about all things Nigeria and i do not talk about the persistent long fuel queue at petrol stations. So the cycle starts this way. Be on the queue a day before.Probably even pack overnight or sleep in the vehicle and you may still be going to work. This is the irony of my dear Country. We have the raw product but never sought to develop it. Sometimes, I ask myself what could really be the problem with the black race? Will this have happened in the hands of the White Men? Is our problem more spiritual than lack of common sense? and of course, Trust Nigerians the most impatient people i know. already regretting what they voted change into Power. Our short mindedness allows block the ray of hope. Just like a woman in labour. the time when the pain is the hardest is when the baby is about to come.Just like a popular song writer in Nigeria once sang "Suffering & Smiling" In the words of Ibe Kachikwu “Hopefully by tomorrow (today) and Thursday, the fuel queues in Abuja should be over. Hopefully, the same thing will happen in Lagos, and thereafter by the weekend, we should see Kano, Katsina, Sokoto, Port Harcourt and Warri get off the queue list.”With these words yesterday, the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, reassured the nation that the lingering fuel scarcity would be a forgotten hardship by the end of the week.An indication that the minister’s promise may come to pass was that a stock of 320 million litres of petrol was being distributed across the country yesterday."

Well this is good news. However, how long will his last. What long-term plans do we have in place. To stop queues from recurring, Kachikwu explained that Nigeria must bring back strategic reserves that could host between 60 and 90 days sufficiency. “First is the fact that our strategic reserve has not been in place in this country for over 20 years. We need to bring back strategic reserve that is between 60 and 90 days sufficiency so that we can restore fully whenever there is shortage in any part of the country. We also need to find an allocation of resources because, for the first time, I have been able to convince oil majors to allocate forex to the downstream players when they bring in products,” he said.

I pray that all those that have good intentions for this country will see it come to pass but those that think otherwise,hmmmmmm......

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