Fuel queues at a filling station in Lagos last week as scarcity bites harder

Handover Note: Jonathan Administration Snubs Buhari On Fuel Scarcity
 
The president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari has lamented that the out-going administration of President Goodluck Jonathan has failed to provide the in-coming government with all the necessary information needed for a smooth take-off next week, particularly on how to tackle the current fuel scarcity in the country.
 

Handover Note: Jonathan Administration Snubs Buhari On Fuel Scarcity
 
The president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari has lamented that the out-going administration of President Goodluck Jonathan has failed to provide the in-coming government with all the necessary information needed for a smooth take-off next week, particularly on how to tackle the current fuel scarcity in the country.
 
The President-elect spoke on a day the Senate directed its committees on Petroleum Resources (Upstream and Downstream) to immediately commence investigation into the remote and immediate causes of the fuel crisis in the country.
 
Meanwhile, Shipping Position Daily findings in Lagos last week revealed that the fuel scarcity may worsen, this is even as the National Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO) and Petrol Tanker Drivers (PTD) have resumed their suspended strike over the money owed them by members of DAPPMA and Major Oil Marketers Association of Nigeria (MOMAN).
 
General Buhari, who spoke when the APC Transition Committee headed by Ambassador Ahmed Joda submitted an interim report of the committee to him, also said the out-going government misunderstood the terms of reference of the committee, thinking he was already running a parallel government.
 
Buhari stated that the aim of the committee was not to indict anyone, but to make adequate preparations for the task ahead.
 
He said: “The in-coming government was misunderstood. It is not that we are preparing for indictment. What we are trying to get is a starting point, where exactly we are going to start from.
 
“We have seen the debt profile now and the performance of the economy. The question is, what can we do about it especially the urgent ones like social security, lack of fuel in the country and fraud? The list is endless. I thank you for what you have done and I hope that the subsequent submission by the government will make your job easier and more efficient and tell us where to begin from.