Jonathan's administration is responsible for the lingering fuel scarcity - Lai Mohammed

Minister of Information Lai Mohammed says that
the last administration is responsible for the
lingering Fuel scarcity currently being
experienced Nationwide. He said Nigerians are
paying for the sins of the last administration. He
said this while addressing state house
correspondents after the Federal Executive
Council meeting today December 21st.he
said..
''One of the reasons for the fuel scarcity
was the inability of the last government
to make adequate provision for fuel
subsidy. We do face some other logistic
problems but majorly, we are paying for
the sins of the last administration. What I
will be telling Nigerians is that what we
met on ground is such that we are paying
for the sins of the last administration. I
am being very serious. You remember
that about two weeks ago, we had to go
to the National Assembly for a
supplementary budget of N674 billion. Of
that figure, N522billion was for arrears of
fuel subsidy which was incurred as far
back as August last year. The solution is
what you have seen us doing. The first
thing we have done now is to make sure
that unlike before when the marketers
used to import the major percentage of
the fuel. NNPC has been involved in
importation, because some of the
marketers had stopped importing for a
couple of months. If you see any fuel
anywhere today, it is imported by the
NNPC. We also inherited the
vandalisation of the pipelines which has
made it impossible for us to even
transport the fuel. In tanks today we
have 14 days reserve and off tank we
have 10 days reserve. The issue is not
non-availability of the product it is the
distribution, because of pipelines that
have been vandalised and the gridlock in
Lagos. It takes about five days for
anybody to take fuel with tanker in
Lagos. As at two days ago this matter
has been resolved. The Mosinmi pipeline
has been secured and it has lead to the
improvement in the distribution.'