Videos trending online currently show hundreds of Edo youths out on the streets as they protest the lingering petrol scarcity and hike in the price of the commodity.
The angry youths blocked roads in Benin City, the Edo State Capital, Midwest Nigeria on Monday, calling for an end to the protracted scarcity.
Bonfires are set up in the middle of the roads with thick smoke billowing from the burning materials.
A voice narration in the video said, “This is happening live in Benin City, Edo State capital; huge protest going on over fuel crisis. You can see protesters block roads and making fire on the roadblocks.”
The videos:
The Speaker, Edo State House of Assembly came out to address the angry youths saying the government is doing all it can address the petrol scarcity, but they remained resolute in their call for an end to the suffering.
The price of premium motor spirit (PMS), otherwise called petrol had gone up, with some fuel stations selling for as high as N400 per litre.
The official cost of the product used to be N165 per litre before recent reports that the governmentof quietly increased it to N185 per litre. But due to the scarcity of the product and the rising demand, many fuel stations are currently selling for between N340 and N400 per litre.
President Buhari recently set up a 14-man committee that he would be heading to proffer solutions to the lingering fuel scarcity.
The committee according to the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr Timipre Sylvia, will be chaired by the President as the Minister of Petroleum Resources while he will be the alternate chairman.
The committee’s job is to address the challenges in the downstream sector of the petroleum industry, causing petrol scarcity in Nigeria.
It will also track petroleum products, especially petrol to ascertain daily national consumption and eliminate smuggling.
In October 2022, Sylva said Nigeria was losing at least 700,000 barrels of crude oil to thieves daily.
The minister said this through the Permanent Secretary in the petroleum resources ministry, Ambassador Gabriel Aduda, who represented him at the 2002 graduation of students of the Petroleum Training Institute (PTI).
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