Federal Government has, again, put the blame of the current fuel scarcity being experienced in the country, squarely on the shoulders of former president Goodluck Jonathan’s administration.
According to the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Nigerians who
have been bearing the brunt of the current fuel scarcity are paying for the sins of the immediate past administration.
Mohammed told State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa, Abuja that it was Jonathan’s administration’s failure to make adequate provision for fuel subsidy.
He explained that out of the N674billion supplementary budget presented to the National Assembly, N522 billion was for arrears of fuel subsidy, which was incurred by the last administration.
“What I will be telling Nigerians is that what we met on ground is such that we are paying for the sins of the last administration. I am being very serious.
“One of the reasons for the fuel scarcity was the inability of the last government to make adequate provision for fuel subsidy. We do face some other logistic problems, but majorly we are paying for the sins of the last administration.”
Information and Culture Minister, however, assured that the Federal Government was doing its best to correct the wrongs.
Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udo Udoma, also said relevant organs of government were already taking actions on the negative effects of the recent ban of the use of ATM cards by Nigerians in some countries.
“We are taking actions on the development. It’s only that relevant government organs are not here to say specifically what they are doing about it but I know actions are being taken,” Udoma assured.
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