DPR seals 24 filling stations in Ondo for offering above N145

As the fuel shortage keeps on gnawing harder in Ondo State, the Department of Petroleum Resources on Thursday fixed 24 oil stations in Akure, the state capital and Ondo town for offering the Premium Motor Spirit, additionally know as oil, above N145 per liter.

Since the fuel shortage started, many filling stations in Ondo town are professedly offering the item above N145 per liter.

A large number of the fixed filling stations were individuals from the Independent Marketers Association of Nigeria, while some real advertisers were all the while offering the item at the official direct cost in the midst of long line of vehicles.

In an operation that went on for three hours, many filling stations were fixed, while DPR authorities constrained a few stations to pitch the item to general society at the typical cost.

The DPR group, drove by the Deputy Chief Officer, Mr. Stanley Okwekwe, said the activity was completed to guarantee that the advertisers sold the item at the official pump cost.

The DPR supervisor additionally pronounced that the operation will be led all the time with a specific end goal to ease the agony of the general population of the state.

In the interim, around eight other filling stations in the state would confront the authorize of the Federal House of Representatives for offering fuel above authority pump cost.

The claimed blundering filling stations were professedly offering the item amongst N220 and N250 per liter, while they showed N145 per liter on the meter.

The Chairman, House Committee on Petroleum Resources, Mr. Joseph Akinlaja, who pronounced this after a checking visit in Akure and Ondo towns, expressed that the blundering filling stations would be summoned to the Assembly to give purposes behind offering over the official cost.

Akinlaja, who speaks to Ondo East/West Federal Constituency in the House, proclaimed that the failing filling stations would confront the rage of the law if discovered blameworthy of the offense.

He stated, "When the NNPC will let me know there is fuel in wealth, I will ask, 'why the line?'

"We are as of now making strides on the improvement and soon, the shortage will end."