Reflection on fuel scarcity

17th of February 2022

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There's been fuel scarcity for about two or more weeks for reasons unknown and I must say that this is the first time in my life that fuel scarcity will affect me directly. Its affecting my life, my business, and may begin to affect my finance if actions are not made to cancel this mess.

At this rate I can confidently say that the country is going to hell.

I've been at Ondo state since mid-January but it's been a little inconvenience due to electricity issue. I got here on the 14th of January and ever since there's been no flash of electricity, it has been total darkness.

This means that I had to rearrange my budget while adding fuel expenses to it so that all things work related wouldn't be put to hold since my work is dependent on the internet and availability of power supply, and the generator requires fuel for operation captain obvious).

I've been trying to live with am additional budget so business will continue to move, unfortunately the past few days have been weird not just for me but the country in general. I'm not one to care about the debimitstimg state of the economy but once it begins to affect me I'd have no choice but to complain.

Complaining wouldn't change anything but I choose to complain anyway since I'm beginning to lose my mind.

Fuel scarcity began lately, I remember having to go to three different fuel stations before I could get a station that had fuel, after which I had to wait for my turn. This took about 45 minutes to one hour.

I thought the scarcity was gonna be something minor and was gonna end as quickly. Unfortunately, I realised today that the scarcity is a nationwide phenomenon and the nation's capital (Abuja) is suffering even more due to the scarcity.

At the time of writing, there is no fuel available in any of the filling stations in my city, fuel prices have gone up and I'm beginning to be bothered because everything I do requires electricity which I can only access by fueling my generator.

No fuel is equivalent to dead laptop, dead smartphones, and dead work station. Which in turn means that all things work related will be on hold till further notice. This is disadvantageous to my finance, in fact I will be fired from work because I have certain businesses which I'm in charge if, especially their social media handle. My personal businesses will he on hold as well.

In fact I began writing a fictional story lately which I intend to publish on the 1st of March on some platform which pays you for doing such. This scarcity of fuel will be a major disadvantage for me, as I may be offline and disconnected from the world for days and weeks possibly. Which means I wouldn't be able to do anything but go back to living like a man from the stone age.

I can't over emphasize how much I hate this country, can't wait to leave as soon as I can.

This is the part where I burst into tears but I'd choose not to as I'm a man, and men don't cry.. m lol!

A man was lucky to get fuel at some far away fuel station after queuing for hours, he bought fuel of 300 Naira but it looked like it was fuel of 50 Naira. It was so insignificant that if I urinated in a bottle, my urine it would occupy more space.

More reasons to cry for the country!