The Bayelsa field office of Department of Petroleum
Resources (DPR) on Wednesday sealed two fuel stations for dispensing petrol
above the new pump price of N125 per liter.
Federal Government had
on March reduced the pump price from N145 to N125 per litre to reflect the fall
in crude oil prices.
The pump price was on
Tuesday night further reduced by 1.50k per litre to N123.50 per litre, but DPR
officials at Bayelsa field office said that they were yet to receive directive
on the latest review.
Speaking with newsmen after the surveillance exercise, Mr
Geore Ene-Ita, Operations Controller of DPR, said that while one of the sanctioned
stations sold petrol at the old price of N145, the second was shut for gross
under dispensing.
Ene-Ita said that was poised in the enforcement of the
new price of petrol by the federal government calculated to bring relief to
Nigerians and has intensified surveillance patrols.
He said that DPR was working to ensure the availability
of products despite the lockdown occasioned by the outbreak of the coronavirrus
pandemic adding that marketers were being encouraged to maintain safety
guideline.
“We are working hard amidst the current challenges of
this time of national emergency which cuts across international boundaries to
ensure that petrol was available at approved pump prices.
“Our aim is to enforce the price reduction from N145 to N125
per litre and from our findings the rate of compliance is quite high in
Bayelsa. Our attention is also on checking under-dispensing.
“We sanctioned some stations where some of their pumps
under-dispensed by sealing the erring pumps and allowing the accurate pumps to
dispense rather than outright shutdown to ensure product availability at this crucial
time.
“In playing our regulatory role we shall not hestitate to
wirld the big stick by imposing appropriate sanctions on the erring pumps which
is a fine of N100,000 per pump,” Ene-Ita said.
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