Nigeria’s chief of defence staff, Lucky Irabor, Tuesday warned that the petrol scarcity across the country had become a ‘security concern’ and ‘nobody is indispensable’ in bringing a solution to the problem.
Mr Irabor, an army general, stated this at a meeting between oil regulators, security chiefs and petroleum marketers.
“The challenge of availability of fuel across the country has risen to a proportion that it had become a concern for the defence and security of our country,” he said. “The government is not handicapped and I need to indicate that there are alternatives and nobody is indispensable.”
At the event, facilitated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), the oil industry regulators engaged the marketers and security agencies to find ways of addressing the lingering fuel crisis in the country.
The engagement was attended by Mr Irabor; Inspector-General of Police Usman Baba and Comptroller General of the Nigeria Customs…
