DPR BEGINS ENFORCEMENT IN PLATEAU STATE.

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR)
has begun to visit filling stations in Plateau to
ensure that major and independent marketers
comply with the new pump price of N86.50 per
litre as directed by the Federal Government.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports in
Pankshin that officials of the department are
currently visiting the central and southern zones
of the state to ensure total compliance.
The department’s team Leader and Human
Resources Assistant, Mr Habib Yahaya, told NAN
in Pankshin on Saturday that it was useful for
both major and independent marketers to comply
with the new pump price.
``All NNPC Mega Stations are expected to sell the
fuel at a pump price of N86.00 per litre while
major and independent marketers are suppose to
sell at N86.50 per litre.
``Anything above these two official pump prices
would attract serious sanctions from our
department, ’’ he said.
Yahaya expressed concern about the attitude of
some of the independent and major marketers
who he accused of avoiding them.
``When they heard we are coming they quickly
closed down and run away from the filling station
so that we could not check the volume of what
they had in stock,’’ he observed.
Yahaya called on the public to alert DPR of any
erring filling station that would not sell at the
official pump price of N86.50.
``This because we are aware that most of the
operators of these filling stations revert to old
prices of their choices whenever we are out of
their domain, ’’ he said.
The DPR official warned that any filling station
caught flaunting the directive of the government
would face the wrath of the department.
He pledged that the DPR would do all it could to
ensure that motorists and commuters were not
subjected to hardships.(NAN)