The long queues in some filling stations in Zamfara State have begun to reduce following the 24 hours ultimatum given to the Petroleum Independent Marketers to end scarcity of the product by the Department of State Service, DSS.
Daily Telescope Correspondent, who monitor some filling stations within and out the state capital report that, some independent marketers have closed their filling stations while others sold it between N280 and N290 per litre.
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In Gusau, the Zamfara State capital,
some filling stations were shut down with black marketers selling the product at N300 per litre with some independent marketers patronizing them by supplying them with the product in Jerry cans and other containers.
It was learnt that independent marketers have flouted the DSS and Zamfara State Task force Committee on petroleum allocation and sell in the state capital, as black marketers continue to have a field day with their containers selling the petrol to customers.
However, most of the major marketers sold between N179 and N185 per litre but they are few as most of them remained closed.
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Some motorist, who spoke to Daily Telescope, said although the queues were not too long but the price is high and attention is only given to blackmailers otherwise known as Yanbunnuritu who sell the product at road side.
When contacted, the Chairman, Independent petroleum marketers Association, IPMAN Zamfara State, Alhaji Surajo Kamba said the product os not available at NNPC Depot for them to buy, saying that they only buy it from private depots at the cost of N225 and above per litre.
Kamba added that beside other expences, there is also delay in transportation as well as lack of payment of bridging allowance from the authorities concerned among others.
He called on federal government to do something to address the situation in order to alleviate the sufferings being experienced by Nigerians.
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kamba therefore, attributed the current scarcity to federal government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC for failure to make the products available for its members at affordable prices.
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