Kachickwu, who disclosed this on Thursday while speaking to aviation
correspondents at the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, said the sector has
being privatised and the production of Jet A1 was entirely in the hands of the
private sector, adding that the federal government has been trying to work with
them to douse the rousing tension.

He disclosed that in the short term he has been trying to liaise with countries
where there is immediate availability of the product and on the long term they
are working on repairing the Jet A1 pump producing in the refineries

He said “Everyone us, including the newly sworn in General Managing Director of
the Nigeria National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC), are doing our best to find a
short-term solution to this problem before looking at the systemic problem and
how it as affected the private sector to provide the aviation fuel.

The Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, however, appealed to users, airline
operators, travellers for the scarcity of the aviation fuel, blaming the
scarcity not on the ministry of Petroleum, but also on the scarcity of Foreign
exchange at the Central Bank of Nigeria.

He said “the government was doing all it could to address the problem, and the
Minister of state Petroleum was making every effort and his also doing certain
negotiations to ensure that the product is available for our use. The CBN,
Ministry of Petroleum is doing is best and we at the ministry of Aviation are
doing our best on what affect us and I will address you in due course”