The
ongoing scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit also known as petrol is biting
harder in the country as users are forced to pay far above the
recommended price of N87 per litre in most of the filling stations that
sell the product, SUNDAY PUNCH has found out.Read More...
Investigations by our correspondents also revealed that
petrol now sells in some states as high as N400 per litre while in others it goes between N110 and N200.
However,
some filling stations as at press time on Saturday, according to our
correspondents, still sold the product at the official price of N87 per
litre. These filling stations, findings showed, were however few and
inundated with long queues of motorists, motorcyclists and other users.
In Cross River State, a litre of petrol was sold for as high as N400 in Calabar and environs on Saturday morning.
Tanker
drivers across the state and beyond had on Monday refused to load the
product from the Calabar Depot in protest of the deplorable situation of
federal roads in the state.
As at the time of filing this
report, most service stations had yet to commence the sale of the
product to the public. Black marketeers had continued to have a field
day.
Many petrol stations in Akwa Ibom State, particularly those
in Ibesikpo/Asutan, Eket, and Itu Local Government Areas on Saturday
sold petrol at N200 per litre.
In Uyo, the State capital, while
the price fluctuated between N170 and N180 per litre, motorists said
many of the filling stations had adjusted their metres regardless of the
amount they pay for buying fuel.
In Ondo State, long queues of
vehicles persisted in many filling stations in many towns on Saturday
even as many of them sold petrol at N120 per litre.
In Ilorin,
the Kwara State capital, there long queues at filling stations on
Saturday especially those owned by major marketeers.
A litre of petrol was being sold between N100 and N110 depending on the distance of the area to the state capital.
In Enugu State, petrol was sold between N130 and N150 per litre.
Our
correspondent, who bought the commodity at the cost of N140 per litre
in the state capital on Saturday, learnt that the product was being
offered to motorists for N150 in other filling stations.
In Oyo State, fuel scarcity reached a height as few vehicles plied the roads.
More
than 85 per cent of major oil marketeers were not selling the product
while a few independent oil marketers sold between N110 and N120 per
litre.
The queues by motorists for petrol continued on Saturday in some filling stations in Abuja and Nasarawa State.
All
petrol stations visited in Abuja on Saturday sold at the regulated
price, but many were not open for business as they claimed not to have
products.
In Benue State, Sunday PUNCH visited the NNPC Mega
filling station along Oturkpo road where the queue for the product was
over four kilometres long. It was the only fuel station selling at the
official pump price of N87 per litre.
Meanwhile, black marketeers have taken over the town as they sold at N200 and N250 per litre.
In Gboko and the other local government areas it was sold at N170 per litre.
Investigations
by SUNDAY PUNCH correspondent, who went round some parts of Nassarawa
State, observed that it was only the NNPC mega station that sold at N87
per litre while others sold at N160 per.
In Bayelsa State,
particularly Yenagoa, the state capital, a few filling stations that
were selling the product on Saturday sold a litre of petrol between N130
and N150.
The NNPC mega filling stations in the Yenagoa
metropolis were the only ones selling at the government regulated price
of N87 but the queues were very long.
A litre of PMS was sold for N100 in many filling stations in Ogun State except NNPC stations and those of major marketeers on Saturday.
In Osogbo, the Osun State capital and other parts of the state, petrol was sold at N110 per litre.
In Lagos, our correspondent learnt on Saturday that while the NNPC and major marketers sold at N87,
black marketers sold five litres of petrol at N600.
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