 Nigerians across border still lamenting over the shortage of fuel as situation bites harder. Our correspondent monitored the situation in Aikiti and Ogun states in the southwest region of Nigeria. Residents of Ado Aikiti in Aikiti state appeal to the federal government to find a lasting solution to the fuel scarcity in the country. They also express their fears over the social economic impact of this scarcity on the people, despite the federal government's promises that petrol scarcity would be over by last weekend. It's affecting every first set of our livelihood. It's affecting transportation. People cannot go to work as it went due. Even if as a patient now who's on emergency, how will the patient get to that place? It's not possible. Look at the kind of people. Look at man hours that we are wasting every day. That's because we are looking for fuel. And this is something that will not last for a lifetime. If you buy fuel today, the best you can do is to manage as an Okada for a day. You have to look for it again. So what are we doing? And we say our youth are not doing anything. How can they do anything? What why? When the future is very bleak, even the present is not assured. It's very bad. Look at all these youths. Look at them. I just look at them and honestly I feel frustrated. I just pray that something will be done. Something that we produce in our country is a shame. It's a shame to everybody. It's a shame. Big shame. You can see the situation of things in the country now. We cannot undergo it again. The suffering is too much. Look at us now. We are grounded. No work. And we are still managing ourselves. And there is no fuel. And they are saying that it's a change. We don't know that this is the type of change they want to bring to Nigeria. So we are not happy with it. The situation of fuel in this country now is very bad. It's very worst. We are Okada men. We are graduates. And we don't have any work to do. The work that we are doing, and we don't have the fuel to work. Please, the situation is very bad now. Even though pure water now is twenty-nine, everything does cause. We don't know the value of government. And in Ogum State, residents of Abe Okuta laments how they struggle to get the products daily to be able to run their businesses. If we affect our business zone, they are not selling anything. Everything just stands still. No markets, nothing. Customers are not coming. Everybody in the market are complaining about it. Because of petrol now, the price is expensive. Even ordinary red oil is expensive now in the market. Everything. For me, 10 Naira is 15 Naira now. The one I bought yesterday, about the figure of 230. I imagine. It has not been easy. And I'm only the air cost cost. Any time for me now. Because what I buy, the water used to get my service done. The truth of matter is that as Nigerians, I as a Nigerian, and as Nigerians, we are fed up with this government. That's the bitter truth. It's as pure as we don't even have government in this country. That is the more reason why we see some of it. In fact, I would say that the features of our children and the new community generation, nobody can say whether they have the future in this country. The government can work on our refineries. I think that would be the best response in time. You know, we have refineries. We are not at full capacity to work in. It's not easy. Exporting pro-doids to outside countries and importing refined products. The chairman of the state's Nigeria Labour Congress, Emmanuel Bankole, claims that the body saddled with regulating pump price has been compromised. Unfortunately, you have an agency of government that is saddled with the responsibility, DPR, that is supposed to go out and ensure that... Do you see them anywhere? So they are already compromised. So those who describe our country as a failed state, I think they are not far from the truth. Because you just wonder, some people are paid to do it. DPR, it is their response to move out and ensure that people are not cheated. Where are they? In all these scenarios. We don't see them anywhere. Highly compromise people. So we will respond appropriately. I can assure you in this area. Because we cannot continue all this. All efforts to speak with the controller of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority in Abel Kutah Field Office proved abortive. Most filling stations hardly opened for business, claiming the product is unavailable, while those open sell at quite gross prices, ranging from 300 Naira to 400 Naira. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.