Fuel subsidy: Kwara govt warns marketers against hoarding
Nigeria Governors' Forum (NGF) Chairman and Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has cautioned oil marketers to avoid imposing needless hardship on the citizens through creation of artificial fuel scarcity in the state and beyond.
The warning is coming barely hours after reports of arbitrary increase in the pump price of fuel and artificial scarcity by marketers in the state which followed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's declaration to end fuel subsidy in the country.
“The Governor is seriously concerned about reports of sudden fuel scarcity in different parts of the state. This is totally uncalled for. He asks fuel marketers to immediately discharge fuel to the public under the normal pricing system since they had bought what they currently have at subsidised rates,” according to a Government House statement by his spokesman, Rafiu Ajakaye, in Ilorin on Tuesday morning.
“Creating artificial scarcity amounts to intentional misrepresentation of the statement of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, on the question of fuel subsidy. The people should not be made to undergo any hardship.
“The Governor urges the marketers to desist from anything that qualifies as economic sabotage of the people. Hoarding fuel bought at subsidised price and creating panic in the state is opportunistic and will not be condoned.
“His Excellency the Deputy Governor Mr. Kayode Alabi will be leading a task force to ensure that no fuel marketer causes undue hardship to the citizens in Kwara State.”
“Fuel stations are to note that the Task Force will dip into their pits. Any filling stations found to be hoarding fuel will have their Certificate of Occupancy (CofO) revoked, among other penalties,” the statement warned.
Cloud Tag: What's trending
Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.
Olayinka Are Temi Kolawole Lateef Alagbonsi Oko Ado Ibrahim Aliyu Muyideen Ilorin General Hospital ENetSuD Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak Aminat Ahmed Mukhtar Shagaya Tescom.kwarastate.gov.ng Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Saadu Alanamu General Hospital, Ilorin Abubakar Aliagan Tunji Folami Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria Funmilayo Zubair David Oyerinola Adedunmoye Olukotun Of Ikotun Babatunde Idiagbon Kwara State Governor Ilorin Anchor Men And Women Dan Masanin HICA Summit University Muhammad Yahya Haruna Olawale Sulaiman Na\'Allah Dagbalodo Okanlawon Taiwo Matthew Okedare Y.A. Abdulkareem Abiodun Abdulkareem Yusuf Amuda Aluko Abegunde Goke School Of Nursing Eleja A.G.F Abdulrasaq Adisa Logun Bursary Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji Mufutau Olatinwo Fatai Olodo Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab NaAllah Mohammed Tunde-Jimoh Kuliyan Geri Issa Oloruntogun Charcoal Sabi Funmilayo Mohammed Lukman Adeloyin Aisha Ahman Pategi Bolakale Saka Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia Kawu Baraje Guber Aspirant Public Holiday Ibrahim Akaje Afolabi-Oshatimehin Federal Road Maintenance Agency Ramadhan SGBN Mohammed Haruna Abubakar Suleiman Oba Abu Yahaya A Paniyaro Students Union Government Musa Abdullahi Local Government Amos Bajeh Abdulazeez Uthman Neo Mundo Ltd Just Law Forum

