Oil Marketer Urges FG To Remove Subsidy On Petroleum Products

An Ilorin-based petroleum products
marketer, Alhaji Abdulkareem Sanni,
on Sunday urged the Federal
Government to totally remove subsidy
on all petroleum products.
Sanni said subsidy had become a source
through which some individuals “milk
the nation dry”.
He also alleged that corruption in the
oil sector had become worrisome and
needed drastic measures to tackle.
The marketer urged government to
critically check activities in the oil
industry, claiming that the action of
some players in the sector was a
negation of government’s reform
programmes.
“If they want to remove subsidy on oil,
let them remove it totally so that we will
know actually where we are going.
“This is because there are lots of
damages incurred in subsidy, more
than the benefits we are deriving from
it. By the time it is removed, we will
know who is who”, he said.
Sanni claimed that a lot of money which
was earlier not budgetted for had been
spent on kerosene, thus leading to a
probe by the National Assembly.
“Only one truck of kerosene was often
brought for six or more filling stations
in Ilorin to share for sale, as against
between 30 or 40 trucks of the product
usually said to have been sent to
dealers in the town.
“This is bad, and it shows that a lot of
things are wrong in the whole set-up”,
he said. (NAN)