Adulterated fuel: CSOs To Stage Protest Against NNPC Leadership

As fuel scarcity continued to bites harder across the country, the Initiative for Leadership and Economic Watch in Nigeria and other Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) are set to hold a rally against the Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Malam Mele Kolo Kyari.

According to them, the call was necessary as a result of the importation of adulterated Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, also known as petrol into the country by the erring oil marketers who are under commercial contracts with the NNPC.

The CSOs in a statement issued the Director of Mobilization, Comrade Eshiet Uwem accused Mr. Kyari for his ineptitude to ascertain the quality of the fuel prior to importing it into the country which ultimately led to the damage of several car engines of millions of Nigerians.

Furthermore, Mr. Kyari was equally blamed for not taking full responsibility for the victims of damaged vehicle engines since the unfolding of the unfortunate event.

Sequel to that, the CSOs has therefore deem it imperative to quickly withdraw their earlier support for Mr. Kyari and decided to embark on public match press briefing slated for Thursday, February 24, 2022 at NNPC Towers and National Assembly Complex respectively for the immediate relieve of his appointment.

Meanwhile, they solicited for the citizens support in joining hand with President Muhammadu Buhari toward boosting the nation’s economic and also promised to unveil platform for profiling the victims of damaged car engines as a result of the imported bad fuel by NNPC and it’s partners.