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Yesterday, I bought petrol 250 Naira per litre after queuing for thirty minutes. While on the queue, an interesting drama ensued. A commercial tricycle driver had just bought five litres of fuel for N1250. He came with a 5 litre gallon. It turned out that the supposed 5 litres of fuel he bought did not even fill the 5 litre capacity gallon. It was a little above the half way mark. It did not look like it was even up to 3 litres. The keke guy was miffed. He looked confused. He did not seem to know who to blame. I could imagine that he was imagining how much profit he will make after buying 3 litres of fuel for N1250. In that frustrated state, the keke man did a funny thing. He lifted the fuel up to the sky as a priest would lift the communion cup and called on the "God of heaven" to judge the situation where he will pay so much but can't even fill his 5 litre gallon. The crowd laughed. In the laughter someone said that he should leave God out of it ;that this same person complaining would collect #500 and vote "for them" in the next election. Another said "not even up to #500, but 2 cups of rice". I was so engrossed with the drama that I didn't even realised that my turn had come to buy. The pump attendant waved me on. It seemed like someone announcing that my time to receive my strokes of cane had come. As I drove in, I looked at the metre and hoped that the #250 boldly written on it was a lie. I wished that the sales guy would tell me that it is a joke. I wished in vain. I drove out with 20 litres of fuel, as measured by the fuel metre, at #5000. But bearing in mind the experience of the keke man with a gallon, I knew at once that I was not up to 20 litres. Fifteen litres, probably. It has to be noted that this same #5000 used to give me more than 50 litres of fuel during the "worst" of Jonathan. As I headed straight to work, I saw queues upon queues at other filling stations on the way. The queues at the stations selling at government price were such that if you were at the middle by 9 am , the chances of getting fuel by 6 pm was slim. I kept shaking my head as I drove past. You can then imagine how I felt when I arrived my office only to watch Channels TV (APC mouthpiece) announcing that the queues have disappeared as promised by government and that the product is now selling at #87 Naira across the country! I switched to NTA (government's mouthpiece) and saw a near identical piece of news. It at once occurred to me that the news item was clearly prepared by government (Lai Mohammed) and sent to their propaganda outlets. But can propaganda save a crawling, helpless and non performing government? I think not. I think that while propaganda can help to hoodwink the feeble minded into bringing in a useless government , same can not sustain a government that does not know what to do. For example, How, on earth, are you going to convince a person who just finished buying fuel at #250 per litre that fuel is selling at #87 Naira per litre across the country?

If you weren't a wailer , i would spare the time to explain to you that you got scammed by useless petrol station manager

There's fuel everywhere

Though the Price has not completely reduced to official price , even in notorious state like Lagos fuel sells for 180 and less


So , Try again later

[quote author=DaBullIT post=44687730]If you weren't a wailer , i would spare the time to explain to you that you got scammed by useless petrol station manager

There's fuel everywhere

Though the Price has not completely reduced to official price , even in notorious state like Lagos fuel sells for 180 and less


So , Try again later
It is obvious you paid goons have sold ur conscience to the devil! Is it just aisha's rice?

DaBullIT:
If you weren't a wailer , i would spare the time to explain to you that you got scammed by useless petrol station manager

There's fuel everywhere

Though the Price has not completely reduced to official price , even in notorious state like Lagos fuel sells for 180 and less


So , Try again later

u mean fuel everywhere?
It is obvious you paid goons have sold
ur conscience to the devil! Is it just
aisha's rice?