NLC urges GEJ, Buhari to punish those behind fuel crisis

by Ranti Joseph

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) isn’t happy with the current situations in the country as regards the oil crisis and has asked the in-coming president, Muhammadu Buhari, to ensure that the cabal controlling the country’s fuel importation business is sacked to restore normalcy in the sector.

NLC said business and commercial activities in the country was brought to a halt as a result of the activities of the mindless and cruel cabal that is holding the industry hostage.

NLC President, Ayuba Wabba, said it was clear the objective of the cabal in the current fuel supply crisis was to arm-twist the Federal Government to part with billions of unearned dollars, as fuel subsidy payments.

Wabba faulted the government for allowing the cabal to continue to hold the country to ransom and escalating the reign of impunity and corruption in the petroleum sector.

According to PremiumTimes, the NLC urged outgoing President, Goodluck Jonathan to, in the few days remaining of his tenure; identify officials in his administration who failed to perform their responsibilities that resulted in the current crisis.

Wabba urged Jonathan to within the next few days conduct a quick investigation and hand the responsibility over to the incoming administration to further investigate and prosecution.

He further urged the outgoing administration to blacklist all those private sector companies involved in the massive blackmail of Nigerians and ensure that their licenses were revoked to serve as a deterrent to other operators.

He said the action of the players in the petroleum sector through a subtle plot to force the hands of the incoming administration to deregulate the petroleum sector, and compound the hardship of Nigerians through the increase in the prices of petroleum products was wrong.

“As organized labor, we maintain our position that government has absolutely no excuse not to ensure that our four refineries with combined capacity to refine 445,000 barrels per day to function and operate to full capacity.

“We refuse to accept that as a nation so dependent on the petroleum sector, that Nigeria is incapable of building and effectively maintaining refineries to refine all the petroleum products it needs internally and more, so that we are able to satisfy our internal consumption needs and export finished products with value addiction along the chain, to earn additional foreign exchange for the nation,” the NLC said.

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