A Civil Society Organisation (CSO) on the aegis of the Natives, has commended the Department of State Services (DSS) over the recent intervention to end the artificial scarcity of fuel by marketers across the country.
The group said the DSS’s intervention had been productive and drastically reduced the hardship motorists were going through as a result of long queues in filling stations.
The State Security Service had given the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited and oil marketers a 48-hour ultimatum to make Premium Motor Spirit known as petrol available for Nigerians, threatening to activate its operations across the country if they failed.
But a statement released in Abuja by the leader and the president general of the Natives, Smart Edwards, said the intervention was a success, commending that the DSS for rising up to the challenge in defence of ordinary citizens, to resist calculated plot to unleash untold hardship on Nigerians.
The statement said: “The Natives commend the Department of State Services for their prompt decision to intervene in the organised sabotage of the well-being and peace of Nigerians as the yuletide season approaches.
“We commend the Director General of the State Department and his team for being proactive and responsive to the yearnings of Nigerians, indeed there seems to be a ray of hope when the intelligence community rises to defend its citizens.
“We are glad to hear and see the DSS as not only restraining or curtailing threats but rising up to enforce sanity and order.
“It has now become a norm that as every festive season approaches, the gang in the oil industry and national saboteurs, embark on their evil ride to create artificial scarcity and ensure hardship on citizens to satisfy their profiteering.”
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