The Governor of Osun State, Ademola Adeleke has announced the composition of a Special Monitoring Team to look into the deepening distribution and pricing challenges of fuel scarcity in the State.
The announcement was disclosed in a statement released by the Spokesperson to the Governor, Mallam Olawale Rasheed on Friday. He stated that the Governor was worried over the biting fuel scarcity in the state.
The Special Monitoring team will be headed by the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Hon Kazeem Akinleye with members drawn from Police, DSS, Army, IPMAN, NLC, TDU etc is to immediately commence the monitoring of distribution of PMS from point of delivery by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to various discharge outlets in Osun State.
The Governor further urged the Monitoring Team to liase with the major marketers for collaboration with the independent marketers to ensure that products are circulated across the state.
While expressing unhappiness about the hardship facing people of the state, Governor Adeleke assured that the state Government will support federal agencies and private sector operators to address the issues behind fuel scarcity in the state.
” We will look into this fuel scarcity. We can’t fold our arms with our people facing so much hardship”, Governor Adeleke assured.
