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Subsidy removal: Ogun motorists express shock over hike in petrol price Petrol
Motorists and commuters in Sango-Ota, Ogun, have expressed shocked over the new pump prices of petrol, otherwise known as Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), announced by Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPCL).
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that NNPCL had on Tuesday morning, said it had adjusted the pump price of petrol; between N580 to N617 per litre.
NNPCL attributed the new pump prices of petrol to response to market realities.
A correspondent of NAN, who monitored the development around Sango-Ota and its environs, discovered that the few filling stations selling the product had adjusted their pump price.
NAN also reports that the few filling stations like NIPCO, NNPC and Mobil Filling Station, that were selling the product witnessed long queues of vehicles.
NAN also reports that some of the filling stations were hoarding the product while long queue at various filling stations resulted to traffic gridlocks on some of the major roads in Sango-Ota.
Mr Bola Martins, a motorist, described the situation as uncalled for, as Nigerians were still struggling with the petrol price that was recently increased.
“Nigerians are really going through hard times and there is urgent need for the Federal Government to ensure measures that will help to ameliorate the sufferings of the people.” Martins said.
Mr Jide Onabanjo, a commercial motorist, said that the new price of petrol would be added to transport fares for the people.
Onabanjo said that this development would further increase the prices of goods and services in the country.
“We can’t continue like this because we have been pushed to the wall.” he said.
Onabanjo said that it was unbelievable that the fuel that he bought for N488 per litre at one of the NNPCL stations had gone up to N617 today.
Mrs Sade Aderanti, a civil servant, said that the new pump prices of petrol would automatically has huge impacts on living standards of Nigerians.
Aderanti said that she had been on the queue for over three hours and yet had not been able to buy fuel.
She appealed to Federal Government to expedite action in putting palliative measures in place for civil servants as well as Nigerians, at large, to reduce the untold hardships.
The Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, SAN has warned against obstructing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from carrying out its lawful duty .
Fagbemi’s warning is contained in a statement in Abuja.
“This is a matter of very grave concern, it is now beyond doubt that the EFCC is given power by the law to invite any person of interest to interact with them in the course of their investigations into any matter, regardless of status.
“Therefore, the least that we can all do when invited, is not to put any obstruction in the way of EFCC, but to honourably answer their invitation.
“A situation where public officials who are themselves subject of protection by law enforcement agents will set up a stratagem of obstruction to the civil and commendable efforts of the EFCC to perform its duty is to say the least, insufferably disquieting’’.
He added that running away from the law will not resolve issues at stake but only exacerbate them.
“Nigeria has a vibrant judicial system that is capable of protecting everyone who follows the rule of law in seeking protection.
“I therefore encourage anyone who has been invited by the EFCC or any other agency to immediately toe the path of decency and civility by honouring such invitation instead of embarking on a temporising self-help and escapism.
“This can only put our country in bad light before the rest of the world’’.
He said institutions of state should be allowed to function effectively and efficiently.
“I stand for the rule of law and will promptly call EFCC, and indeed any other agency to order when there is an indication of any transgressions of the fundamental rights of any Nigerian by any of the agencies’’.
NAN reports that the EFCC had on Wednesday warned members of the public that it was a criminal offence to obstruct officers of the Commission from carrying out their lawful duties.
Section 38(2)(a(b) of the EFCC Establishment Act makes it an offence to prevent officers of the Commission from carrying out their lawful duties. Culprits risk a jail term of not less than five years.
The warning , the EFCC said, became necessary against the background of the increasing tendency by persons and groups under investigation by the Commission to take the laws into their hands by recruiting thugs to obstruct lawful operations of the EFCC.
On several occasions, the anti graft agency said, operatives of the Commission have had to exercise utmost restraint in the face of such provocation to avoid a breakdown of law and order.
Some unknown gunmen have kidnapped Joshua Rogers, the ChannelsTV reporter in Port-Harcourt, the Rivers State capital.
Politics Nigeria learnt that Rogers was picked up close to his residence at Rumuosi in Port Harcourt and to an unknown destination by the gunmen around 9pm on Thursday, April 11.
The reporter was driving his official ChannelsTV branded car when the hoodlums accosted, pointed a gun at him and took him away in the same vehicle.
Rogers was said to be returning from his official assignment in Government House after a trip to Andoni for a government event when the incident happened.
Already, the gunmen were said to have contacted his wife and demanded a N30million ransom for bis release.
His cameraman confirmed the incident and appealed to his abductors to set him free unconditionally.
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