Marketers caught diverting petroleum products in Kano State will
henceforth pay a fine of N150 per litre of the diverted product.
Alhaji
Rabiu Bako, Chairman of The Task Force on Distribution of Petroleum
Products in the state,
said this during a news conference on Sunday in
Kano.
Bako said the measure was to check the continued fuel shortages being experienced in the state.
Bako, who is also the Commissioner for Commerce in the state, said
marketers had not heeded to earlier warnings to desist from sharp
practices.
“The decision followed series of warnings by the Task
Force to oil marketers in the state to desist from sharp practices and
illegal increases in the pump price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS),” he
said.
He said any marketer found diverting petroleum products would be so sanctioned and also risk forfeiting such products.
Bako
said that the warning was necessary in order to ensure that all
products reached their designated filling stations across the state.
Credit: Dail Post
The chairman said the Task Force had confiscated eight drums and 50
Jerry cans of PMS and fined the petrol station involved N4.2 million
since its inauguration.
The committee urged members of the public
to be vigilant and report any suspicious character to the Task Force or
law enforcement agencies nearest to them.
The News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje had last week
inaugurated the 17-member task force as part of efforts to address the
lingering fuel scarcity in the state. (NAN)
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