Irked by the the return of fuel queues at filling stations in Lagos and Abuja, Lagos, Ogun, Port Harcourt and others part of the country due to the importation of substandard Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly known as petrol President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered that the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Mr. Farouk Ahmed, be queried immediately.
Buhari asked the Minister of State, Petroleum, Mr. Timipre Sylva, to query Ahmed on why such substandard PMS was allowed into Nigeria.
According to Thisday sources it said that the situation has become an embarrassment to this government. There’s no question that these cargoes of petrol were bad, so he (Ahmed) is being queried over how the fuel came into the country and the president has so instructed’
“The reason the midstream/downstream authority is being queried first is that for now the bulk stops at its desk. They are the first port of call. Ordinarily, they are expected to know how it came into the country.
“This is because they are the police of the industry. How did it get past them into circulation? It is their job to know. They are the police which should stop bad fuel from coming into the country.
“So, the NNPC has not been queried for now. The question now is who certified the product clean enough to come into the country?
