Petroleum Marketers Defy Directive on N87 Pump Price
On Sunday it was announced that the
price of petrol has been reduced to N87 per litre as opposed to the old
pump price of N97 per litre.
Correspondents of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) who
monitored the petroleum supply situation in Sokoto on Monday and Tuesday
reported that the commodity was being sold for between N97 and N110 per
litre.
It was also observed that the situation
was the same at most of the major and independent petroleum marketers’
filling stations. NAN also observed that the NNPC mega stations on Gusau
Road, like several others located in the town, were closed.
Ibrahim Musa, a petrol
attendant at Mobile filling station, told NAN “we are yet to receive new
supplies of the product based on the new pump price’’.
Another attendant on Gusau Road, also said: “We are ready to adjust to the new price whenever we receive an official confirmation’’.
It was, however, learnt that one of the NNPC mega stations on the road sold the product at the old rate of N97 per litre.
NAN reports that all efforts to get
comments from the Sokoto Zonal Office of the Department of Petroleum
Resources (DPR) had proved abortive.
Its Controller, Mr. Salihu Moriki, was said to have traveled out of Nigeria for an official assignment.
In the same vein, his deputy, Mr. Kaka Sheikh, was on annual leave while the acting Controller was out of the office when NAN Correspondents visited the office on Tuesday.
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News Credit: NAN(News Agency of Nigeria)
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