Legal luminary and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Femi Falana has come out to blast the FG for its inability to build a functional refinery to address the lingering crisis in regulating fuel prices in the country.

He recently revealed this during an interview with the press, and Nigerians have been reacting.

According to him, it is a shame on the part of the Nigerian government that an individual like Dangote can build a refinery that refines 600 barrels of fuel per day, while the government of Nigeria cannot even build four functional refineries to address the crisis of fuel in the country.

He added that it is very appalling to see how the government would import fuel from other countries including from countries that don’t produce fuel, instead of fixing refineries.

His words, “It is a shame that an individual like Dangote can build a refinery to refine 600 barrels of oil per day and the Nigerian govt cannot.”

“PPPRA just woke up one morning and said they want to sell petrol for 212 naira and the president and no one knows about it? And no one has been fired.” The law only permits the petroleum minister to such within legal frameworks.”

“Market forces exist in the imagination of imperialist as far as our laws are concerned there is no place for market forces determining prices of petrol.”

“This is an oil-producing country and on a yearly basis huge money is an earmark for fixing refineries. But instead of fixing refineries, the government imports fuel from other countries including from countries that don’t produce fuel.”