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No Promise to Reduce Petrol Pump Price – FG

by Agi Michael
July 9, 2020
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The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, has said the Federal Government did not at any time promise to keep the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) permanently low.

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Sylva also said government had concluded she could no longer bear the burden of petrol subsidy.

The minister made this public in a press statement published on Thursday on the ministry’s Instagram page entitled ‘Deregulation: The Facts and The Reasons Behind the Policy’.

He said one of the reasons the country had been unable to attract the level of investments desired into the refining sector had been the burden of fuel subsidy.

According to the Minister of the Federal Republic, deregulation means government will no longer continue to be the main supplier of petroleum products but will encourage the private sector to take over the role of supplying the products.

He likened the regulatory function to the role played by the Central Bank of Nigeria in the banking sector, “ensuring that commercial banks do not charge arbitrary interest rates”.

“After a thorough examination of the economics of subsidising PMS for domestic consumption, the Federal Government concluded that it was unrealistic to continue with the burden of subsidising PMS to the tune of trillions of naira every year, more so when this subsidy was benefited by a large cabal of the rich class, rather than the poor and ordinary Nigerians,” he said.

“This means also that market forces will henceforth determine the prices at the pump. In line with global best practices, the government will continue to play its traditional role of regulation to ensure that this strategic commodity is not priced arbitrarily by private sector suppliers”: The Minister said

“Petroleum products are refined from crude oil. Therefore, the price of crude (the feedstock) for the refining process will affect the price of the refined product. When crude oil prices were down, government, through its regulatory functions, ensured that the benefits of lower crude oil prices were enjoyed by Nigerians by ensuring that PMS was lowered. At that time, we indicated that an increase in crude oil prices will also reflect at the pump.”

“We need to free up that investment space so that what happened in the banking sector, the aviation sector and other sectors can happen in the midstream and downstream oil sector. We can no longer avoid the inevitable and expect the impossible to continue. There was no time government promised to reduce pump price and keep it permanently low” : He added

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