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I Am Not Happy with You, Gov Oyebanji tells Petrol Dealers …we will sell at reasonable price, Marketers assure Govt.

Dealers and marketers of petroleum products in Ekiti state have assured the state government that all filling stations in the state will open and start selling fuel at reasonable price to the people.

They gave the assurance in Ado Ekiti a during meeting with Governor Biodun Oyebanji, following sudden hoarding and hike in the price of fuel by filling stations.

The spokesperson for IPMAN in Ekiti state, Mr Adeyinka Shodowo said executive members of IPMAN and that of other related associations would embark on tour of filling stations to ensure that anyone that have more than 3000 litre in their storage tanks were dispensing fuel to the people.

Acknowledging that removal of subsidy is in the best interest of the country, Mr Shodowo explained that they would not allow any station to sell above 250 per litre so as not to inflict unnecessary hardship on the people.

Responding, governor Biodun Oyebanji frowned at the marketers for trying to sell their old product at new price rate for people when governent had not increased the official pump price of the product, Saying what they bought is what they should sell to the people.

He expressed displeasure that the artificial fuel scarcity they created had negatively impacted on the people of the state.

Mr Oyebanji consequently ordered the state petroleum taskforce to shut down any filling station that refused to dispense, adding that defaulting filling stations will remained shut till the end of this year.

On his part, Ekiti state chairman of the Special Petroleum Intervention Taskforce Mr. Deji Adesokan said the taskforce had swung into action immediately they discovered that some filling stations had started hoarding and stopped selling fuel in the state.

Mr Adesokan explained that his team had sealed off one of the petrol stations selling the product at exorbitant rate of six hundred naira per litre to the people.

He emphasised that in line with the governor’s directive, the task force would be going round the state to ensure that gas stations sell their products accordingly, noting that anyone who defaults would be forced to sell or picketed.

The meeting had in attendance, executive members of IPMAN, NUPENG, Independent Marketers, the state Special Petroleum Intervention Taskforce among others.

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