Fuel Scarcity: Kano antigraft agency cautions petrol marketers against diversion

The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC) has warned petrol marketers across the state against diverting their product.

Barr. Muhyi Magaji-Rimingado gave the warning on Monday in Kano, while briefing newsmen on the long queues that surfaced in some fuel stations in the state.

According to him, “since in the morning, I have been receiving calls from different people across the state calling on me to check the cause of the fuel scarcity.

“Therefore, we have to swing into action by checking the fuel stations in the state to see for ourselves what brought about the scarcity.

“But we have come to realise that most of the stations were closed because there was no supply from the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

“We find out from the NNPC, and they have told us that they have distributed the product today.

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“We asked them to provide us with the manifest for the distribution of the petroleum products in the state, so that by tomorrow we are going to use it to visit those stations.

“And any marketer found guilty of hoarding the product, definitely we are going to take legal action against them. Hence, they are advised to avoid such acts. He advised.

Magaji-Rimingado further called on essential commodity marketers in the state to avoid an artificial increase of prices for their goods because of the holy month of Ramadan where people need them.

“I had a meeting with Dangote and BUA group of companies, they assured us that they will not increase prices of their goods. Therefore, retailers should avoid increasing the prices of their products.

“The situation is not like that of last year, where the commission had to raid some markets over artificial price increase, but rather the major companies assured that 4,500 trailers of food items are already in the state so as to flood the markets and reduce the hardship on consumers.

“Hence, there is no reason for any trader to inflict hardship on the people by unnecessarily increasing prices of food items.” Magaji-Rimingado said.