The House of Representatives yesterday invited Minister of State (Petroleum Resources) Heineken Lokpobiri for a briefing on the way out of the crisis.
But the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) and Major Energies Marketers Association of Nigeria (MEMAN) assured that normalcy was being restored.
Queues and crippling shortage of the product continued in most parts of the country.
The invitation of the Petroleum Resources minister by the House followed the adoption of a motion on a matter of urgent importance by Umar Ajilo.
Also summoned were relevant stakeholders in the petroleum industry.
Before the invitations were made, the House expressed worry over the pains Nigerians were going through due to the scarcity and rising cost of petrol.
The House was also concerned that the NNPCL has yet to ’’address this perennial and persistent fuel scarcity problem faced by Nigerians despite the volume of resources at its disposal.’’
Ajilo said: “Most worrisome is that all these economic quagmires have made the lives of average Nigerians unbearable with a litre of fuel selling as much as N1,200 in some states of the federation.
“This 10th Assembly must rise to the occasion to ensure that lasting measures are taken to address this unfortunate and embarrassing situation permanently in the interest of all Nigerians.”
The NNPCL said yesterday it hoped that normalcy would return today, MEMAN which said its members and their partners had started evacuating 300 million litres of petrol from Apapa and other parts of Lagos, believing the scarcity would end in a few days.
