Unexplainable yearlong fuel scarcity in Abuja: a cry for help.
Why have there been fuel scarcity in Abuja and why is nobody (especially the government officials) saying something or doing anything about it?
Since this year, Abuja, the federal capital territory has been struggling with fuel scarcity. The irony is that no other city or state is bedeviled by this scarcity that is hitting the city tagged the Centre of power at the moment.
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The fuel scarcity started late last year and it got better for some time but it got worse from January this year. No government official is saying anything about it, and no person in the right authority is giving any reasonable explanation as to why Abuja residents have been queuing up for hours just to fuel their cars to move around and get fuel to run their generating sets to run their businesses.
Just this year, I have been to Portharcourt Umuahia, Owerri, Lagos, Enugu, Calabar, Abakaliki, and Kano and none of those states is struggling with fuel scarcity as of the time I’m in the state so I’m speaking with verifiable information when I claim that no other state is currently facing fuel scarcity that Abuja is facing right not. It is terrible and calls for concern.
Abuja residents have wasted billable hours worth billions of dollars since this year as a result of the unexplainable fuel scarcity.
Persons in authority really need to look into it and act as fast as possible. If it is a nationwide menace then it could be explainable but the fact that it is only happening in Abuja could satisfy some explanations that some conspiracy theorists have been giving.
I for one as an Abuja resident am tired of it. I don’t want to be leaving my house by 2 am just to go and queue up to get fuel as some people are doing and I don’t want to be getting to meetings or courts for appearances late just because I wasted my valuable time waiting in line for it to be my turn to get fuel.