Gaa-Akanbi, ILORIN: Several independent petrol markers have shown deliberate defiance to the Kwara State government order to abstain from hoarding petroleum products and shutting their business gates to consuming public.
Early Wednesday morning (7am) Rextun City Updates monitored petrol stations along Agbabiaka- Danialu- Gaa Akanbi axis of the metropolis. Many of the filling stations remain shut to customers.
Alflaman petrol station, the only one of the independent Marketers outlet opened to customers dispensed PMS, petrol at the rate of N300 per litre compared to N230 it sold 72 hours ago.
At Golden mother, a nearby filling station to Alflaman, the gates have remained shut to customers.
Total comfort petrol station, an independent Marketer outlet which sold products to a long queue of desperate motorists yesterday was shut to customers as at the time of filing this report. A petrol tanker, suspectedly laden with petroleum products was observed within the premises around the discharge bay.
At the pipeline by Gaa Akanbi roundabout, Juniwad petrol station also remained close to customers. Rextun City Updates spoke to a few Keke Napeps drivers around the area. All those spoken to said they had reason to believe that Juniwad petrol station has petroleum products in its storage tanks.
This is coming less than 24 hrs after the kwara State government took proactive steps to forestall another bitter period of product scarcity. The government warned independent petrol Marketers to desist from hoarding products or risk forfeiture of their C of Os.
The state government announced the constitution of a task force committee to be led by the state deputy governor which is saddled with the responsibility of checking the excesses of independent Marketers in the form of racketeering and product hoarding.
