Department of Petroleum Resources Sanctions 23 Private Depots in Lagos

Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, has clamped down about 23 private depots in Lagos for allegedly using middlemen to cause the recent increase in the pump price of fuel in some parts of the country.

The Controller of the DPR in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, Amos Jokodola, revealed this on Wednesday, August 19.

Speaking with reporters in Ilorin on WEdnesday, Jokodola explained that, “there is no going back on enforcing the N87 per litre as pump price.”

“Our mandate is to ensure that marketers abide by federal government rules and regulations regarding the official selling price of the premium motor spirit popularly known as petrol. “Some of these allegations made by marketers are correct but our management in Lagos carried out its investigation and found out that marketers are not buying at the N77.61k NNPC price for Premium Motor spirit (PMS) “

The 23 depots that were using middlemen to perpetrate this acts were penalised appropriately and sanity has prevailed.”

Jokodola stressed that though marketers complained of paying a lot of levies and other miscellaneous charges on the road, that should not  stop them from complying with government directives.