Governor Radda said the meeting followed complaints that some fuel stations had shut their gates to customers while others had raised the price of the commodity. He told the marketers that government would resort to force the marketers to start dispensing petrol to the motorists if they fail to comply with his directive. The governor gave the directive after he had emergency meeting with the independent marketers at Government house,katsina. Katsina State Governor Mallam Dikko Radda on Tuesday night gave independent marketers operating in the state twenty four hours within which to re- open shut fuel stations and start dispensing petrol to motorists.
No station was dispensing, they just wanted to create artificial scarcity in the state.” The prices hovered between N195 and N250/l at the fuel stations which had long lines.Ī resident, Ugo Willie, said, “I went all the way to Doma in search of petrol, from noon to 2 pm because I was in need of fuel. In the Gombe metropolis, black marketers have taken over the streets as they made brisk business selling petrol in jerry cans at N650/l.
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Even before I left, they were already considering how to raise the price after getting information that some stations were selling at N500 per litre.’’ “I got to the filling station so early with the hope of getting fuel but after visiting three filling stations I was able to buy at the rate of N350 per litre. Paul Osato said he left home very early in the morning and was able to buy at N350 per litre after visiting three fuel stations.
When The PUNCH visited the NNPC Mega Station on Tuesday, the queue stretched from Sapele Road to High Court Road towards the EFCC Office and Protea Hotel. However, at the NNPC Mega Station on Sapele Road, the product was sold for N189/litre. In Benin, Edo State, most of the marketers were dispensing fuel between N350 and N520 per litre as panic buying persisted in the metropolis. The same situation was recorded in Minna, Niger State where desperate residents lined up at the fuel outlets on Tuesday.Īfter Tinubu’s announcement on subsidy removal, scores of fuel stations were locked up except the NNPC Mega stations. In Ogun State, one of our correspondents observed that all the filling stations between Akute and Alagbole, including Mobil, Enyo, and two NNPC outlets had been shut down. When one of our correspondents visited some fuel stations around the Ikotun, Igando, and Egbeda axis of Lagos, there were very long queues of motorists. Our correspondent observed that transport fares along the Oshodi-Apapa corridor had increased by 100 per cent, the same as the Oshodi-Ojota-Ketu route. Meanwhile, the queue for fuel at the North West fuel station, Westex Bus Stop heading toward Gbagada extended almost to Ikorodu Road. Vehicles could not access the outlet due to the ongoing construction activities on that stretch of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
Total Energies filling station at Ojota was closed, same as the Mobil station before Otedola Bridge even as Nigerians with kegs set up tents there. The NNPC filling station located at Second Rainbow Bus Stop along Apapa-Oshodi Expressway wasn’t dispensing fuel from any of its four pumps. Tinubu had in his inaugural address at the Eagle Square on Monday pronounced with finality an end to subsidy, noting that the 2023 Appropriation Act did not provide for petrol subsidy beyond June the end of the 18-month extension period approved by the Muhammadu Buhari administration for the discontinuance of the subsidy regime. To worsen the situation, many outlets shut down their facilities and refused to dispense fuel to motorists, further creating scarcity and sparking desperation and panic buying at the fuel stations that were opened to customers. The development equally triggered a 100 per cent hike in transport fares, while long queues resurfaced at fuel stations across Lagos, Abuja, Ilorin, Benin, Asaba, Port Harcourt, Kano, Makurdi and other major cities and urban areas. Less than 24 hours after President Bola Tinubu declared an end to fuel subsidy, the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit commonly known as petrol has skyrocketed to N600 per litre from N195/l in many parts of the country.
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