By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Nigeria is a sick country, very sick. What is worse, Nigerians have increasingly become unhinged. Many of the things happening in the country are bizarre and it takes only an unhinged population to condone the maladies.
You are wrong if you think I am talking about the importation of adulterated fuel which has grounded almost the entire country and destroyed many vehicles. In any other country other than Nigeria where there are consequences for actions of state officials, heads would have rolled by now.
The petrol supply chain was disrupted last week when the
Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA,
otherwise known as The Authority, announced that it discovered methanol
quantities above Nigeria’s specifications in imported petroleum products.
Even as the queues get longer at the petrol stations, the noise has lessened and we have all gone back to our pastime – grumbling. Nothing will happen because the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd, NNPC, the regulator and sole importer of petrol in Nigeria, which is busy pointing fingers of blame at four marketers, including its own Duke Oil, is the major culprit.
