Reps Urge NNPC to Reduce Filling Station Lines

The House also urged the appropriate security authorities to track down individuals who were undermining Nigeria’s efforts economically. 

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited, the only importer of gasoline, has been requested by the House of Representatives to reduce filling station lines immediately.

The House encouraged the appropriate security authorities on Wednesday to find oil marketers and other potential economic saboteurs who are behind the nation’s fuel shortage. 

These decisions were made as a result of a legislator, Leke Abejide, calling attention to the ongoing fuel crisis in the entire nation in a motion of urgent public significance. 

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The regulatory authority is required to meet with the House leadership, and the green chamber ordered the pertinent House committees to look into the subject and deliver a report on it within 48 hours. 

In the meantime, a bill to alter the Fire Service Act’s provisions has 

a second reading in the House of Representatives and provides provisions for the implementation of building safety measures, rules, and penalties for default. 

Unyime Idem, a member-sponsored bill that aims to control fire outbreaks in Nigeria, calls for either a fine of no more than one million naira or a period of no more than five months in jail, or both, for violators. 

Another clause in the law states that the building permit cannot be granted until the submitted building plan has been carefully reviewed, the required fire prevention and management kits have been provided, and the appropriate supervision procedures have been followed.