Fuel queues have intensified in some parts of Lagos after the announcement of scrapping of fuel subsidy by Nigeria’s newly-elected President Bola Tinubu.
Tinubu on Monday announced that the decades-long subsidy on petroleum products was being scrapped.
“Fuel subsidy is gone,” he told a packed crowd in the capital, Abuja.
Appearing on the Asaase Breakfast Show on Monday, Nigeria correspondent, Ruth Akinwunmi said the development has led to an increase in prices of fuel, describing it as “outrageous”.
“The situation is still the same, there are queues all over Lagos State where Iam based, at the moment a lot of fuel filling stations are selling between 350 and 500 Naira and this is outrageous.”
“As at Friday, these queues started building up, but nobody was afraid about anything until the announcement of the removal of subsidy by the newly elected President Bola Tinubu,” she said.
Akinwunmi added: “It was like a wildfire and people were really scared, those that have full tank are saying once their fuel runs out they don’t know what to do.”
Listen to Ruth Akinwunmi in the attached audio clip below:
Reporting by Fred Dzakpata in Accra
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