President Muhammadu Buhari has not hidden his anger on ‘unpatriotic’ Nigerians who have caused fuel scarcity thereby making it difficult for Nigerians to enjoy the Christmas and New Year celebrations.
He said: “unfortunately, I am saddened to acknowledge that for many, this Christmas and New Year holidays have been anything but merry and happy.
“Instead of showing love, companionship and charity, some of our compatriots chose this period to inflict severe hardship on us all by creating unnecessary fuel scarcity across the country.
“The consequence was that not many could travel and the few who did had to pay exorbitant transport fares.”
The President, in his New Year broadcast to the nation today, January 1st, said that his government would not accept the sad situation because the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) had taken measures to ensure availability at all depots.
He made it clear that he is determined to get to the root of what he called “this collective blackmail of all Nigerians” and that he would ensure that whichever groups are behind the manipulated hardship will be prevented from doing so again.
“Such unpatriotism will not divert the Administration from the course we have set ourselves. Our government’s watch word and policy thrust is CHANGE.
“We must change our way of doing things or we will stagnate and be left behind in the race to lift our people out of poverty and into prosperity.”[myad]
