The annoying queues at petrol stations are getting longer. Nigerians don’t like this Christmas gift. Last night, mine was the 50th car in a three-pronged queue for gas at the Total filling station along the Mobolaji Bank Anthony way in Ikeja, Lagos.Inside the gas station, tempers flared, a few grown ups exchanged fisticuffs and angry words and the petrol station management threatened to stop selling if we all don’t behave ourselves. It was the same last Christmas. And the Christmas before that and the one before that and the one….Panic buyingThe government first called the reappearance of the gas queues this Christmas season “panic buying”. In other words, all of us were panicking to fill up our kegs and car tanks for fear that we won’t have enough gas to see us through the festive season, hence the queues. But this “panic buying” has lasted three weeks and the queues are still there and getting longer.
