Nigeria: Senate Summons Kachikwu, Baru, Others Over Fuel Scarcity

29 December 2017

Abuja — As fuel scarcity persisted in Abuja, the nation's capital city, and several other big cities in the country Thursday, the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has directed the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream) to cut short its recess and immediately convene a meeting with industry stakeholders.

Chairman of the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resources (Downstream), Senator Kabiru Marafa, who disclosed this in Abuja, said following the directive, the committee has summoned the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Maikanti Baru, and other relevant stakeholders in the petroleum sector to a crucial meeting next Thursday.

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