http://www.newsportng.com.ng The Coalition of Concerned Civil Society Organisations of Nigeria has called on members to get ready for massive protest following the lingering fuel crisis in the country.
CCCSON made the call on Friday, in a press statement jointly signed by stakeholders of the organization, Comrade Abdulsalam Moh’d Kazeem,
President, Unified Nigerian Youth forum, Comrade Isah Abubakar,
President, Northern Youth council of Nigerian, RT. Hon. abdulmajeed Oyeniye Speaker, Oodau Youth Parliament, and Activist Gabriel Emmanuel Abela, National Coordinator, South South Youth for Peace and stability.
They noted that the problems in the Oil and Gas Sector started immediately the President who doubles as the Hon. Minister of Petroleum Resources appointed Mr. Mele Kyari as the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, adding that despite the illegal adjustment of pump price, the product is still not available for users. – Fuel crisis
The group further stressed that “Coalition of Concerned Civil Society Organizations of Nigeria, is calling on it members to get ready for mother of all protests in regards to the continuous scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit due to the inability of the current management of Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and it’s entire board members to do the needful.
“Our problems in the Oil and Gas Sector started immediately the President who doubles as the Hon. Minister of Petroleum Resources appointed Mr Mele Kyari as the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, we are witness to favourism in Posting, lack of proper records of transactions, Exit of Multinational Companies, Poor operational & managerial skills which has caused our Nation embarrassment among comity of Nations producing Oil.
“Early this year for instance, NNPC imported adulterated fuel with high methanol beyond our national standard and recommendations, which remains first of its kind in recent time and particularly under the current administration where long queues have become history, sadly, due to the inabilities of the current management and its inactive Board members to effectively and efficiently discharge their duties they have successfully drag us backwards from developing Nation to under developed Nation and it has been reported that we are now the poverty capital of the world, since all key performance indicators of our economics prosperity remains Negative.
“Today our nation is in serious economic crisis and this crisis is recurrent; all accusing fingers is pointing at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation which remains the engine room of our survival as a Nation, but sadly the said NNPC has not remitted a single kobo to our nation’s treasury in the last 7 months under the leadership of Mele Kyari and his team.
“NNPC and it’s subsidiaries are the sole managers of crude oil which account for more than 80% of Nigerian foreign exchange earnings, yet they have largely claimed to be using the Oil proceeds to pay for a fraudulent activities namely: fuel subsidy. This fuel subsidy remains the biggest fraud in our nation history since 1960, because it only favours few elites in the sector at the detriment of our nation’s growth and development. – Fuel crisis
“As law abiding citizens our Organisation at different levels have been following the activities of NNPC and board members with positive expectations, but sadly from the commercialisation to the partial and illegal adjustment of pumps price between 195 to 225 depending on the area and zone, yet we are still witnessing non availability of the products.
“The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation did not carry all stakeholders along to arrive at the said conclusion, but that is not the issue here; because we have all bought 1 litter of PMS above the initial approved price of NNPC and the heaven did not fall, since we are aware that the corporation is been mismanaged and any attempt to do the needful will lead to blackmail of our persons with the Support of some state actors, our concern as a group is the availability of the products even if it is a thousand naira per litre and anything short of this will lead to massive nation wide protest in the next 7 days which will be centered around calling for the sack of the state minister, Mele Kyari and his team and the entire board members of NNPC.
“Our Organisation have written letters notification/ requesting for permission in the above regards to those saddle with such power to avoid history repeating itself.” He concluded.
