Anambra State Government Inaugurates Scheme to Check Price of Kerosine

ONITSHA — In a bid to cushion the effect of the skyrocketing price of Kerosine in the State, the Anambra State government has introduced Kero-Direct scheme to do just that.

Mrs. Ngozi Okoye, the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Oil and Gas, while speaking to journalists at her office yesterday said the scheme was set up to make the product affordable to the poor masses in rural areas

“There is a Kero – Direct scheme, which the governor, Chief Willie Obiano introduced to make sure that the product gets to the people of Anambra State at a cheap price. We are supposed to get five trucks of kerosene every month but when l called NNPC at Abuja, they said the product was not available.”

She also said that since the scheme was inaugurated, the state government had only received three trucks that were distributed to the people of Orumba, Oyi, Anambra East, Enugu-Ukwu, Nnewi and Ukpor North at N50 per litre.