AYIRI TAKES KEROSENE TO RIVERINE COMMUNITIES IN DELTA AT 50K PER LITRE …subsidized product with over #60m

By Our Correspondent

A Niger Delta youth activist, Chief Ayiri Emami has commenced his one-week programme of the sales of kerosene to some Itsekiri and Ijaw riverine communities in Delta State, saying that he did it to alleviate the suffering of his people.

The social crusader who said he has subsidized the product to the tune of over #60m disclosed that this is the first time the people had ever witnessed such magnanimity in the whole of Warri South-West and North council area of the state.

The product was transported in three fuel tankers of different sizes to Ugborodo through barges that make the cost of the business astronomical and beyond the rich of the common man in normal circumstances.

Making the first sale of the product to eager buyers in hundreds of jerrycans at his Akpakpa-Ajudaibo community, Chief Ayiri said he had to kick-start the sales at his home town because charity begins there before leaving to another Ugborodo community, Ogidigben where another set of hungry buyers where waiting to receive what they called free kerosene.

Chief Ayiri who promised to ensure that if given the product regularly, he would ensure that the riverine people get at least  one million litres of kerosene every month and thanked Mr. President and the Petroleum Minister for making his first subsidized sale to the communities possible.

Some respondents, who spoke to journalists at Ajudaibo and Ogidigben disclosed that a litre of kerosene sale between #300.00 and #500.00 in beer bottle or ragolis water can and that even getting the product from Warri is a herculean task, adding that is why the product is ever scarce and very expensive.

The resident Pastor of the Ogidigben Baptist Church, Mr. Gabriel Aforijuku applauded the A & E Petrol Nigeria Limited owned by Chief Ayiri for taking the arduous pains of transporting the product to the community and urged them to try coming from time to time, praying to God Almighty to bless the Chief for his kind and humanitarian gesture.

Ayiri debunked rumours that he is doing this good deed because of the forth coming elections, saying that he is not contesting for any political position as philanthropy has always been in his blood and is well known by all well meaning persons across the nation.

The 50k per litre of kerosene train moves to other communities tomorrow including Tebi-Ijaw along the Escravos estuary.