The bitting effect of the fuel and diesel scarcity and the difficulty it has imposed on the citizens has elicited the call for President Buhari to in 5 days immediately sack Sylva, Kyari, and Farouk by Arewa.
Newsonline reports that the Amalgamation of Arewa Youths Groups, AAYG, called for the immediate sacking of Chief Timipre Sylva, the Minister of State for Petroleum; Mr. Mele Kyari, the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited; and Mr. Farouk Ahmed, the Managing Director of Nigeria Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, on Monday, following protracting fuel and diesel scarcity in the country.
Amalgamation of Arewa Youths Groups, AAYG, described Chief Timipre Sylva, the Minister of State for Petroleum; Mr. Mele Kyari, the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited; and Mr. Farouk Ahmed, the Managing Director of Nigeria Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority as saboteurs who are responsible for the hardship Nigerians are going through.
In a statement, Comrade Abubakar Musa Ardo and Comrade Victor Duniya, Secretary and Spokesman of AAYG respectively, stated that during the previous fuel scarcity, both the NNPC and Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority accused some major oil marketers of importing high Methanolic contaminated Premium Motor Spirit, with the promise of bringing the said companies to justice.
Amalgamation of Arewa Youths Groups said it was regrettable that none of the major oil marketers had been brought to book to serve as deterrence.
Comrade Abubakar Musa Ardo and Comrade Victor Duniya alleged that Chief Timipre Sylva, the Minister of State for Petroleum; Mr. Mele Kyari, the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited; and Mr. Farouk Ahmed, the Managing Director of Nigeria Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority must have partnered with the major marketers to put the country in hard times.
The group also stated that the saboteur act of the trio is bringing the government of President Buhari a bad name.
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Part of the statement read: “While Mr. Farouk and his boys are sleeping or in active, independent petroleum marketers are selling PMS in most Northern states as high as N250. This is against the National benchmark and highly subsidized rate of N165.
“We recognize that both Mele Kyari and Mr. Farouk Ahmed are all from our region, there is no gainsaying that they have failed woefully in their responsibilities, we strongly support change in guards in their offices as they appeared to have run out of ideas on how to end the lingering energy crisis in the country.”
The group said the scarcity of diesel and fuel and high price is putting Northern Nigeria in a dare security problem, stating that many have been kidnapped in the course of searching for fuel.
