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Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, has declared that Nigerians were now paying for the sins of the past government.
He said the Jonathan government owed oil marketers huge debts in oil subsidy payments, such that they have stopped importing the product in the last couple of months, hence the biting scarcity.
Asked by State House correspondents to explain the scarcity to the nation, Lai said: “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”.
“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”.
He said the Jonathan government owed oil marketers huge debts in oil subsidy payments, such that they have stopped importing the product in the last couple of months, hence the biting scarcity.
Asked by State House correspondents to explain the scarcity to the nation, Lai said: “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”.
“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”.