The Independent Petrol Marketers Association of Nigeria has faulted the Minister of State for Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, over his assurance on the completion of the Port Harcourt refinery.
Sylva had during a seminar recently in Abuja, said the refinery would be ready before the end of the second quarter of this year.
But the IPMAN Chairman for Rivers State, Dr. Joseph Obele, said the assurances of the minister were one too many without result.According to him, Nigeria is the only member of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries without a functional refinery.
Obele says It will take a corrupt-free government to make our refineries functional, then and only the consistent fuel scarcity will be a thing of the past and Nigerians will buy fuel less than #100 per liter.
