Five filling stations in Lokoja, the Kogi

state capital have been sealed by the

Department of Petroleum Resources

(DPR) for selling petrol above the

government regulated price of N145 per

litre.

​The stations were sealed on Wednesday,
December 27 when the DPR operations

controller in charge of Kogi state, Engineer Amos Jokodola was heading an

inspection of filling stations in Lokoja,

Daily Trust reports.

Jokodola expressed disappointment over

the attitude of some fuel dealers who he

said derived the pleasure in flaunting

the government price.

He accused some stations of hoarding

petroleum products to cause artificial

scarcity.

Jokodola said: “Imagine, some filling

stations have enough fuel but they

choose not to sell to customer; we are

coming round the stations to force them

to sell at government price.

“The five stations we sealed up have fuel

and sell above government price while

some saw us coming and closed their fuel

stations. We will continue to monitor

them until they comply and make the

petrol available to motorists to buy .”

The DPR boss warned that any dealer

who fails to adhere to the government

regulated price per litre will be

sanctioned appropriately.


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