DPR Clamps Down On Erring Fuel Service Stations

A Joint Task Force, comprising of State Security Operatives
and other regulating bodies in a clampdown on offenders, is
making efforts to end petrol scarcity in Nigeria
by punishing offenders.
The group said it had unanimously agreed to take
measures that would sustain the availability of petroleum
products.
For more than three weeks motorists in Maiduguri have
battled with the reality of insufficient supply of Premium
Motor Spirit popularly known as petrol in the state.
The result is long queues at the Nigerian National
Petroleum Corporation’s mega station and few other petrol
stations where the product is dispensed at the official pump
price of 87 Naira.
Some independent marketers are taking advantage of the
shortfall to create artificial scarcity and later use the forces
of demand and supply to sell above pump price to
desperate motorists.
The Department of Petroleum Resources Task Force Team
caught up with the offender and customers, who are victims both ways, have now made peace with the high
cost of petrol.
They are demanding that controlling agencies intensify monitoring and surveillance as against depriving the
long suffering public by sealing off stations.
At a mega station in the state, queues are becoming shorter, as testified by motorists who now wait shorter
period before they are attended to.
Aside hoarding, overpricing and under delivery discovered, the task force had also intercepted a truck
diverted to an unknown destination.