Metro
DPR seals five fuel stations in Enugu for adjusting pump
The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Enugu Field Office has sealed five petrol stations in the state for adjusting their pumps to under deliver products to members of the public.
The Operations Controller, Mr Okechukwu Okoro disclosed this on Tuesday in Enugu in an interview with newsmen after a routine monitoring exercise.
Okoro said that the exercise was to ensure that petroleum marketers sold the products including Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) at the government regulated price.
The operations controller said that they also wanted to ensure that marketers did not adjust their pumps to cheat on customers.
He said that it was sad that some petroleum marketers were out to cheat their customers by adjusting their pumps to under dispense petrol.
Okoro said that five petrol stations were caught in the act and consequently, sealed.
Read also: You are on your own! Lawyers in Ondo tell kidnappers, bandits
He said that it was gratifying to note that about 50 petrol stations inspected were selling at the approved government regulated price of N145. 00.
“Our findings was that all the petrol stations sold at the government regulated price but five of them adjusted their pumps to under deliver.
“We sealed the five stations. They will pay the penalty and recalibrate their pumps before we unseal them,” he said.
He called on members of the public to partner with DPR by providing them with the necessary information needed to clamp down on defaulting petrol stations.
Join the conversation
Support Ripples Nigeria, hold up solutions journalism
Balanced, fearless journalism driven by data comes at huge financial costs.
As a media platform, we hold leadership accountable and will not trade the right to press freedom and free speech for a piece of cake.
If you like what we do, and are ready to uphold solutions journalism, kindly donate to the Ripples Nigeria cause.
Your support would help to ensure that citizens and institutions continue to have free access to credible and reliable information for societal development.
INVESTIGATION: In Kwara, multimillion-naira milk processing plant is abandoned, converted to a chicken outlet
After the government spent millions of naira to establish a milk processing plant in Kwara State that would provided jobs...
SPECIAL REPORT: For Sokoto communities, promise of healthcare is akin to death sentence
In this story, ABDULRASHEED HAMMAD delves into the dire realities of Primary Health Care services in Sokoto State, shedding light...
ICYMI…SPECIAL REPORT: NNPCL hides behind PIA to frustrate disclosure, accountability
Nigeria’s major oil company, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), in what appears to be a common practice of disregard...
INVESTIGATION: Multi-million naira Ekiti resort center remains uncompleted a decade after
The multimillion-naira project, expected to comprise recreational buildings, now consists of cassava farmland, a bush used for excretion, and a...
SPECIAL REPORT: Torturous experiences of students with disabilities in Oyo tertiary institutions
For students with disabilities in Oyo state-owned tertiary institutions, learning is a torturous and distressing experience, considering the building structures...