DEPARTMENT OF PETROLEUM RESOURCES SEALED 33 PETROLEUM STATIONS IN OGUN

The Director disclosed further that two of the filling stations were located along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, declaring that the owners of the two filling stations along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway would pay fines, for removing the seal of the DPR from their facilities, without recourse to the agency on about two occasions.

“In Ogun State, the DPR has been on surveillance and monitoring of the filling stations across the state. We have been to Ogun Waterside, Mowe-Ibafo, Ipokia, Ado Odo- Ota, Abeokuta metropolis, Sagamu, Ijebu Ode among others’, she said .

“Between January and February 22, we have visited 444 filling stations across the state and we discovered 245 out of this number were dispensing the Premium Motor Spirit popularly known as petrol to motorists. This show about 75 per cent of the filling stations were dispensing products to motorists’.

“However, also out of this number, 33 filling stations were sealed for either over-pricing, under- dispensing and hoarding. Two of them were located on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. These two filling stations were sealed but their owners removed our seal, without recourse to us. We have asked the depots not to supply them products; they will definitely pay fines for removing our seal.”

Bello-Zagi said DPR had started online monitoring of petroleum retail outlets in the state, and also appealed to both major and independent marketers not to hoard petroleum products and warned the public against panic buying.

In his speech, chairman, Mosimi Chapter of Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Samuel Idowu, speaking on the cause of the lingering fuel crisis, said it all started since the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation,N