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Nigeria's state-owned oil company has warned against panic buying of petrol, saying the prices of fuel were not changing. A court in Kenya's coastal town of Mombasa has allowed cult leader Paul Mackenzie to meet his wife, Rhodah Mumbua, in prison under strict supervision of the authorities.
It follows the return of long queues at petrol stations that persisted on Thursday in the capital Abuja and the neighbouring Nasarawa and Niger states over fuel scarcity. Mackenzie had pleaded to the court to order the authorities at Shimo La Tewa Prisons to arrange a meeting between him, his wife and also their children to discuss family matters.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) in a statement said the limited availability of petrol was a result of logistical problems. Mackenzie had also requested to be transferred to a different cell.
However, the company said the challenge had been fixed. But a magistrate summoned the officer in charge of the prison to guide the court on Mackenzie's plea to be relocated to a different cell.
It urged Nigerians to avoid panic buying as "there is a sufficiency of products in the countryā€¯. Mackenzie has been charged with murder after more than 400 bodies were found buried in shallow graves in a remote forest in the coastal Kilifi county.
Nigeria, Africa's biggest economy and oil producer, had subsidised fuel for decades to keep pump prices affordable. Survivors and victims' families have said Mackenzie urged followers to fast in order to "go see Jesus".
But President Bola Tinubu removed the subsidies as part of wider reforms to stabilise the economy, pushing prices to triple. He and 29 others pleaded not guilty and have been behind bars for more than one year now.
Mackenzie has already been charged with committing acts of terror, child cruelty and torture, which he denied.
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