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Pump price: Oil marketers defy govt in Southeast

16th April 2016
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MARKETERS of petro­leum products in Anam­bra and other states in the South East have continued to sell Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) for between N200 and N220 in Awka and its environs in spite of increased supply to the state.

Investigations on Fri­day, showed that all the major marketers except NNPC mega station and Total failed to comply with the N86 and N86.50 approved price.

It was discovered that at NIPCO filling station, Amawbia, customers said they bought petrol at N86.5 briefly after the product was delivered to the station.

They claimed that the management of the sta­tion adjusted their metres to N190 per litre later on Thursday. When the sta­tion was visited on Friday, petrol was being sold at N190.

An attendant, who pleaded anonymity, con­firmed the price.

The attendant said he was not sure when they would revert to the normal price.

At Rainoil outlet in Ogidi, operators of the sta­tion used masking tape to cover the N140 price per litre set by management and pasted N170.

Transaction at the sta­tion was done with the aid of calculator.

George, a customer, who came to buy the prod­uct at the station, said the act was a deliberate move to cheat the people.

“From all indications, petrol has been supplied to Anambra but the market­ers have refused to adjust to the normal price.

“Even those who are privileged to buy the prod­uct at a competitive price are still cashing in on the situation to cheat the con­sumers,” he said.

At Ifenna, filling station near Regina Ceali junc­tion, the attendants were dispensing the product at the rate of N220 per litre.

Okwudili Akah, a cus­tomer, said the outlet al­ways dispenses the prod­uct above the approved price.

“This has been their culture, I must tell you that DPR has had to picket this filling station a number of times; I urge the agency to intervene now,’’ he said.

Similarly, petrol sta­tions at Agu Awka, Arro­ma, Unizik junction were all selling at N200 while MRS, Amawbia, NIPCO, and a few others sold the product at N190 per litre.

Masters Energy and Total which sold petrol at the approved price did not have the product as at the time of filing this report.

Chief Ikechukwu Nwankwo, the Chairman, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association (IPMAN), Enugu zone, told newsmen that his members in the zone were yet to be supplied petrol at the approved price.

He urged the Federal Government to make the product available to bring down the price.

On his part, Mr Peter Ijeh, Operations Control­ler at the Enugu office of the Department of Petro­leum Resources, gave an assurance that the agency would continue to compel marketers to sell petrol at the approved price.

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