MISSING $20BN: NIGERIANS STILL SUFFERING HARD PETROL SCARCITY. Long queues at Filling Stations have become a regular feature of Lagos and other parts of the country since last week. At several petrol dispensing stations in Lagos, petrol attendants came to blows with consumers who queried why the product was available in the ‘black market’ but not at the pumps. Around the Fadeyi and Onipanu Bus Stops on Ikorodu Road in the Lagos metropolis, our correspondent noticed street urchins (popularly referred to as ‘Area Boys’) dispensing the product to consumers with various sizes of jerry cans. It’s becoming a regular occurrence all over Lagos in the past fortnight as demand of PMS continues to outstrip supply. “How can we continue to suffer like this in a country that produces oil? How can we continue to depend on oil importation eventhough we produce oil?”, one respondent who identified himself as Yusuf Adepetu asked Ekekeee rhetorically yesterday after he had been bundled from a gas dispensing station with his shirt ripped into shreds and streaks of blood adorning his face. “These people in Abuja are thieves. By the next election, the politicians will come around to share cups of rice and salt around and my people will vote for them again”, lamented Mr Adepetu. The traffic situation in the Lagos metropolis has now taken a turn for the worse as several lanes have been taken over by cars waiting for their turn at the pumps. Fares have also tripled as a result. A bus ride from Berger to Ikeja now goes for N300 from N100 and it now costs as much as N400 to hitch a bus ride from Ojuelegba to Obalende.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 10:35:04 +0000
Trending Topics
© 2015