It was widely reported on Wednesday that the federal government had officially scrapped the Department of Petroleum Resources , Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency and the Petroleum Equalisation Fund .
PEF is the special intervention fund put in place by the federal government with the mandate to ensure price uniformity of petroleum products across the country, through the reimbursement of marketers for losses they incur in trucking products from depots to their filling stations anywhere in Nigeria.
The action of the federal government is premised on the passage and implementation of the Petroleum Industry Act passed into law by President Muhammadu Buhari after both chambers of the National Assembly had passed, clause by clause, the Petroleum Industry Bill. Two new agencies, the Upstream Regulatory Commission and Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority have since been saddled statutorily to perform the duties of the three defunct agencies.
LEADERSHHIP Weekend findings revealed that the leadership of the defunct agencies are now technically handing over to their successors put in place by the minister of state for petroleum, Timipre Sylva, at the Wednesday inauguration.
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