Director, DPR, Mr. Osten Olorunsola
The Ibadan field office of the
Department of Petroleum Resources, which controls Oyo and Osun states,
has sealed about 100 petrol filling stations across the two states in a
weeklong exercise aimed at penalising marketers who sell petrol above
the official pump price of N87 per litre.
Apart from selling above the regulated
price, the management of the affected filling stations were also accused
of diversion of petroleum products, tampering with meters and other
sharp practices.
Some of the filling stations shut in
Ibadan and Osogbo are Agape Energy, Femson Petroleum, S.T. Akpata
Petroleum, Taska Energy Resources, Mallo Petroleum, Hamzat Oil, BK
Petroleum, Mubilat Oil and Prolek Oil.
The
Operations Controller, Ibadan field office, DPR, Mr. Olakunle Ogunlana,
who led the team around the Ibadan metropolis on Thursday, explained
that the move became imperative in view of the excesses of some fuel
marketers who engaged in dubious activities that raised the price of
petrol and frustrated the government’s effort at making the product
available to the people.
Earlier in the day, our correspondent
observed that many filling stations in Ibadan, which perhaps got
information that the DPR was carrying out an inspection, began to sell
the product at N87 per litre instead of the previous rate of between
N100 and N120 per litre.
After the exercise, Ogunlana said, “The
intention is to ensure that petrol filling stations sell at the normal
government approved price. Petrol is available in the country and the
government is doing enough to make sure that the product is never in
short supply across the country, but some marketers will not just sell
at the approved price as a result of greed.”
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