ANAMBRA GOVT TO EMBARK ON AGGRESSIVE MONITORING OF PETROL STATIONS WITH TAMPERED METRES
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Anthony Ifeanya, the Anambra State Commissioner for Petroleum and Mineral Resources, has announced that the ministry has finalised plans to start a rigorous surveillance programme of petrol stations throughout the state.
Ifeanya stated that the goal of the operation is to capture petrol stations that have been discovered to have tampered with their metres.
The commissioner made this declaration on Saturday in Awka, the state capital, while cautioning anybody who engages in such behaviour to stop right away or risk facing the full force of the law.
The state ministry of petroleum received “uncountable complaints” about “tampered metres,” “adulterated fuel,” and dubious transactions by petroleum marketers prior to the development, it was discovered.
This comes at the same time as the state’s official pump price of fuel per litre has officially reached N970 at the majority of filling stations, despite the fact that in other locations, consumers still have to pay more for the same product.
Upon touring the state’s largest cities on Saturday, It was noticed that the majority of filling stations were not dispensing the product, and those that were were being surrounded by cars and other product consumers.
Due to this event, commuters now pay N300 for a trip that they formerly paid N200, a rapid increase in transport rates above 100%.
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Checks revealed that most filling stations operating in Onitsha, Nnewi, Ekwulobia, Obosi and some parts of Awka, sold above N970 per litre.
However, NNPCL facilities located along the Awka-Enugu Road and in Onitsha were seen selling the product between N820 to N850 per litre.
A customer at one of the NNPCL outlets located around Onitsha, identified as Chukwudi, said, “The price of the commodity has not been stable in recent times, it has been floating, when you buy N920 today, tomorrow they tell you it is N970.
“Despite this daily increment, the meters have largely been tampered with as most times, the quantity of fuel we get is below the expected quantity it should be. Even if you use a keg to buy it, it is noticeable. Everything is just abnormal as far as petrol is concerned and people have been thrown into a helpless situation.”
So worried by the development and the series of complaints at his office, the commissioner for petroleum, Anthony Ifeanya, who described the acts as “cheating and inhumane”, especially in this hard time, declared that such acts are unacceptable to the state government.
He listed the dangers of adulterated petroleum products including higher emissions of dangerous gas, air pollution and inferno, which according to him, could lead to loss of lives and property, the commissioner frowned at the “get-rich-quick syndrome of some people even when it involves colossal loss of life and economic wastes”.
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