As Nigerians continue to groan in discomforts over fuel deficiency, a Non-Governmental Organization, the Muslim Media Watch Group of Nigeria, MMWG, has gotten in touch with the federal government to carry out a comprehensive examination on why the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, stations and many major online marketers are discovering it tough to get fuel supply for sales up till now in spite of it supervising of the product.

The group, in a declaration collectively signed by its National Coordinator, Alhaji Ibrahim Abdullahi and the National Secretary, Dr. Nasir Balogun, on Tuesday, lamented that the deficiency has produced additional sufferings for Nigerians.

It said “reports from all over the country described as critical, the unknown difficulty on the innocent people as relates to fuel shortage triggering the group to contact President Muhammadu Buhari to provide ‘matching orders’ to all stakeholders in the petroleum industry to rise to the challenge positioned by the fuel deficiency to reverse the ugly trend to minimize the hardship facing the people of this country.”

MMWG condemned the indifferent attitude of the NNPC and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources on the problem, describing their obligations of ensuring the reliable distribution of the product around the country as weak, inefficient and inefficient.

According to the group, “today situation depicted them as those who are insensitive to predicament of the suffering masses.”

It likewise condemned “the unruly and uncultured behaviour of some purchasers of petrol in very few filling stations that are available in the nation such as roadway obstruction by purchasers with no plan by the security agencies to guarantee orderliness and appropriate management of affairs, thereby aggravating the difficulty individuals are dealing with.”

“The essence of great governance is to guarantee orderliness as well as maintenance of order. The present circumstance whereby the state federal governments behave as if they are unconcerned with this hazardous pattern of fuel deficiency is assuming is condemnable as ‘prevention is much better than remedy’.

“Security companies like the Police and Civil Defence Corps should have actually swung into action to make sure orderliness but absolutely nothing is taking place as if we have no federal government in location in anywhere in the federation.

“The present state of affairs in few fuel stations provide opportunity to hooligans, promotes and unfavorable elements to interrupt peaceful sales of the product is extremely condemnable.

“It is outrageous for NNPC that guaranteed accessibility of fuel everywhere to work from recently might not satisfy its mandate in this regard and no effort is made to update the masses on its efforts to bring back normalcy.

“The resultant effects of this neglect is untold challenge for vehicle drivers, commuters and certainly all residents,” it worried.

The group even more noted that the situation has actually led to the increase in prices of services and items along with that of fuel specifically by independent marketers.