As Fuel Scarcity bites harder in Kano state, the Department of State Service (DSS) on Monday, summoned the Independent Petroleum Marketers of Nigeria, Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission and other Stakeholders, directing them to quickly resolved the problems.
Daily Telescope gathered that a liter of the product is being sold between N310 and N320 in the state.
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A meeting, according to a Senior DSS Official who did not want his name mentioned, was held on Monday and attended by the DSS agents, the Petroleum Marketers and other stakeholders.
He said during the meeting, the Marketers detailed the DSS the problems they are facing in getting the product from other parts of Nigeria and transporting same to Kano.
According to him, some of the challenges they are facing include high cost of supplying petrol to this part of the Nation, lack of good Roads that results in consistent damages of their tires and federal government’s refusal to settle their bridging claims among others.
In the same vein, the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR had set up a 3-man team of monitoring supplies in Kano, which would commence operations Tuesday (today) to ensure uninterrupted supply of the commodity to filling stations in the Kano.
The DPR, was said to have assured the DSS of ensuring full compliance of uninterrupted supply of fuel that would in the next few days free Kano from the long queue of Motorists at filling Stations.
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Following the lingering fuel crisis, many motorists have parked their vehicles as most filling stations have remained closed.
Investigation by our reporter in the ancient city showed that most of the filling stations had remained shut for over thrée weeks now while the few that were selling the commodity were besieged by a long queue of vehicles.
The investigation revealed that the few filling stations that were operating, had jerked up their prices to between N310 per litre and N320 per litre.
The nvestigation further indicated that
black marketers were having a field day in the metropolitan areas as many unemployed youths have taken into the business.
According to the investigation, some of the filling stations owned by the Independent Petroleum Marketers preferred to sell the commodity to black marketers in order to maximise profit even though the pump price had not been increased by the government.
It was observed that motorists had resorted to buying the commodity from black marketers due to the closure of the filling stations in the town.
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A four litre gallon is being sold at N1,600 at the black market as against N1,100.
A cross section of residents who spoke on the situation called on the Federal Government to intervene so as to save residents especially common man from the current economic crunch.
