How Ifeanyi Ubah helped to end fuel scarcity in Lagos in May 2015

Posted by Felix Okoli on Wednesday June 10, 2015 at 8:6:11:

Ifeanyi Ubah is the owner of Capital Oil, a major oil importing, marketing and distribution company in Lagos.

There was a serious fuel crisis in May 2015 towards the handover date at which a new president is expected to resume office and it seemed that as a result of the non payment of oil subsidy fees to marketers by the govt, they decided as a group to stop the distribution of petroleum products and this resulted in a crushing fuel scarcity that made poor Nigerians suffer more.

The results of the fuel scarcity brought untold hardship to Nigerians who only resorted to paying more for goods and services as petrol stations were no longer selling the product.

As the fuel scarcity caused by the oil marketers' strike continued for weeks, it took the courage of one Igbo man named named Ifeanyi Ubah to help stop it when he decided to pull out of the strike and start distributing fuel to Nigerians as his station at Apapa Lagos. It was to show an act of kindness rather than stick to his rights that helped ease the sufferings of many people who have been barely surviving for weeks as a result of the scarcity.

This is how Igbo men and women should act always. It is better to be kind than to be stick to your rights in cases where kindness is mostly needed. When an Igbo man gives loan to his friend, he would rather forgive that debt than let the debtor die as a result of not being able to repay the loan.

Igbo people believe that there is a reward for everything and that includes showing kindness to people even when they don't deserve it or when they are not obligated by law to show that kindness. That is part of what is means to be Igbotic.