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DPR warns Zamfara filling stations against supplying fuel to bandits
The Department of Petroleum Resources has told filling stations in Northwest state of Zamfara to stop supplying petroleum products to bandits in the area.
The DPR gave the warning through its Gusau Field Office Controller, Ango Harina on Wednesday in Kaura Namode during a surveillance of filling stations in the area.
The department also sealed a Liquified Petroleum Gas Refilling Plant in Gusau over some infractions.
Haruna said: “Today, we intercepted some black marketers conveying jerrycans loaded with petroleum products in Kaura-Namoda.
“You know it is a tradition in Zamfara that some unpatriotic citizens supply petroleum products to bandits in the bush.
“As you can see, we met four persons at a filling station conveying the product in jerrycans going to nearby villages.
“Even though they told us that they are going to some villages where there is no filling station, we don’t believe them.
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“We didn’t allow them to go with the products. We asked them to return the product to the station.
“I’m using this medium to warn filling station managers to desist from selling the product to those unpatriotic citizens and if we catch anyone doing that he/she will be sanctioned.
“We cannot seal the station now because we dont want to create artificial fuel scarcity in this area, because we learnt that it is the only station selling the product here in Kaura-Namoda today,” he explained.
Speaking on the sealed LPG Refilling Plant in Gusau, the controller revealed that the plant was using expired gas cylinders and had no safety equipment.
“As you can see, all the gas cylinders in this plant are expired, the water system is not working, infact the plant manager cannot even present a copy of their licence to us.
“The environment of the plant is very bushy and if a customer mistakenly throws away a lit cigarette butt in this area, we wont know what will happen.
“Therefore, we have to suspend their operations until they meet the minimum safety requirement,” he said.
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