Fuel shortage: Osun NSCDC warns against hoarding
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps, Osun State Command, has ordered its officers to go after petrol stations stockpiling fuel in the state.
This was contained in a statement from Kehinde Adeleke, the NSCDC Osun Command Acting Public Relations Officer, obtained in Osogbo on Friday.
Adeleke also revealed that the Corps State Commander, Sunday Agboola, has ordered the command's Anti-Vandal Squad to embark on routine monitoring of service station activities to prevent hoarding.< /p>
She warned that the Corps would ensure that any marketer found hoarding fuel would not escape punishment.
The statement read in part: "The NSCDC boss said he was making frantic efforts to ensure that all service stations involved in the hoarding of premium automotive gasoline that has led to a shortage in the state would face the wrath of the law.< /p>
"It is a known fact that there is a shortage of fuel supply in the country, despite this, gas stations should not use the opportunity to cause untold hardship to citizens.< /p>
"We have our undercover agents who are under surveillance at all stations across the state and this will continue until sanity returns to the system."
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The Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps, Osun State Command, has ordered its officers to go after petrol stations stockpiling fuel in the state.
This was contained in a statement from Kehinde Adeleke, the NSCDC Osun Command Acting Public Relations Officer, obtained in Osogbo on Friday.
Adeleke also revealed that the Corps State Commander, Sunday Agboola, has ordered the command's Anti-Vandal Squad to embark on routine monitoring of service station activities to prevent hoarding.< /p>
She warned that the Corps would ensure that any marketer found hoarding fuel would not escape punishment.
The statement read in part: "The NSCDC boss said he was making frantic efforts to ensure that all service stations involved in the hoarding of premium automotive gasoline that has led to a shortage in the state would face the wrath of the law.< /p>
"It is a known fact that there is a shortage of fuel supply in the country, despite this, gas stations should not use the opportunity to cause untold hardship to citizens.< /p>
"We have our undercover agents who are under surveillance at all stations across the state and this will continue until sanity returns to the system."
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