Fuel Scarcity: DPR Monitors Sales Of Fuel In Sokoto

Worried by the extent to which filing station owners in Sokoto state continued to hoard petroleum products in anticipation that there might be an increase in fuel price soon, the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) has taken bolder steps to forestall undue exploitaion.Before the DPR exercise, majority of the filing stations in the Seat of the Caliphate except A.A RANO, NNPC MEGA opposite Stalion Motors and AZMAN were the very few that were selling fuel in the metropolis.DPR officials who were seen moving from one filing station to the other along the Kalambain road within the metropolis as at press time, equally compelled filing station owners, especially those that sell to black marketers at night to sell to motorist under their supervision or face harsh consequence.LEADERSHIP investigation however revealed that majority of the filing stations had refused to sell petroleum products despite having them in good quantity.And some of the filing stations that sells product when there is scarcity instantly spranged up, selling above federal government approved pump price of 145 per liter.Though, as a means of dribbling unsuspecting buyers, 145 per liter is boldy written in such filing stations, but the meter is already tempered with.Expressing dissatisfaction with the rate at which petroleum marketers in Sokoto state often take advantage of everything to exploit people, Allhaji Shehu Musa cautioned that they should remember the day of reckoning.
Click here to read full news..