Fuel scarcity: Rights group writes DSS DG, demands investigation in oil sector

Following the constant fuel crisis in Nigeria, a rights group, Centre for Human Rights in Africa, has written to the new Director-General of the Department of State Services, DSS, Adeola Ajayi, urging the secret police to investigate alleged corruption in the oil and gas sector.

Torizone reports that there is widespread anger over alleged suspicious activities of Mele Kyari, Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPC, and other top officials in the oil sector.

Stakeholders including lawyers and several civil society groups have called for the removal of the NNPCL boss, Gbenga Olu Komolafe, Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, NUPRC, and Farouk Ahmed, Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, to pave the way for investigation into the crisis rocking the oil sector.

In a letter to the DSS DG signed by its convener, Princess Caroline Obi, the rights group accused officials in the sector of frustrating functionality of local refineries for their own selfish gains.

Parts of the letter read, "We are desirous of a better Nigeria and one of the ways this could be achieved is when there is a clean-up in the administration of the oil and gas sector in Nigeria.