{"id":129682,"date":"2019-06-24T18:38:39","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T17:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=129682"},"modified":"2019-06-24T18:38:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T17:38:54","slug":"gov-ayade-moves-to-end-fuel-scarcity-in-cross-river-after-daily-post-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=129682","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Ayade moves to end fuel scarcity in Cross River after DAILY POST story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Why-I\u2019ll-no-longer-appoint-older-people-into-my-cabinet-Governor-Ayade.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has constituted a three man task force to address the issue of fuel scarcity in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the task force, according to DAILY POST findings, are: Chief Tony Undiandeye, Chairman, Pastor Barr Edem Ekong \u2013 member, and Rt Hon Itaya Nyong \u2013 member.<\/p>\n<p>A press release issued by the permanent secretary, Ministry of Information and Orientation on Monday, Mr Aye Henshaw 11, directed the task force members to liaise with the relevant stakeholders including the Police, Independence Petroleum Market Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) as well as other stakeholders to resolve the issue within 24 hours and return all fuel stations to full operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn view of the recent fuel scarcity in the state which has brought untold hardship to the citizenry, government has constituted a three man task force to liaise with the relevant stakeholders and address the issue in the interest of the public.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe task force is also charge with liaising with the state commissioner of Police, Independence Petroleum Market Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) as well as other stakeholders to resolve the issue within 24 hours and return all filling stations to full operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMembers of the public are therefore request to remain calm as government is doing everything possible to restore the fuel situation to normalcy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST had reported that the scarcity of fuel worsened in the state at the weekend assumed a dangerous dimension as passengers and other commuters were stranded. The scarcity of the product crumbled economic, social and political activities in the state.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has constituted a three man task force to address the issue of fuel scarcity in the state. Members of the task force, according to DAILY POST findings, are: Chief Tony Undiandeye, Chairman, Pastor Barr Edem Ekong \u2013 member, and Rt Hon Itaya Nyong \u2013 member. A press release [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":128717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[6004,4154],"class_list":["post-129682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ben-ayade","tag-cross-river"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}