Operations Controller, Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Kano, Alhaji Isah Tafida, has said that the intelligence report gathered by the operatives of the regulatory agency had led to the closure of 26 filling stations found to be grossly violating the directives of the federal government in disposing petroleum products.
Conducting journalists round some filling stations in Kano metropolis, Tafida also ordered owners of two filling stations to discharge fuel free of charge to the general public on account of violating the laws governing the sales of petroleum products.
Tafida said the two filling stations had violated the laws for the umpteenth time, adding that it was the mandate of the DPR to check the excesses of erring fuel marketers.
He, however, stated that no owner of filling stations could ever allowed to escape justice in as much as one violated the law with impunity, stressing that fuel marketers had no reason to sabotage the efforts of the federal government.
He further revealed that the DPR had taken the decision to lift the ban imposed on some filling stations found to be selling the commodity at the approved official price and compelled to revert to the normal price of N8.5k per litre, affirming that they would simultaneously be fined by the agency.
He called on fuel marketers to be cautious in safeguarding the laws governing the sales of petroleum products at the time the Buhari administration was seeking to sanitise the petroleum sector.
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