The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), in charge of Ondo and Ekiti states on Tuesday sealed two filing stations in Akure, the Ondo State capital for hoarding the Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) popularly called petrol.
The affected stations are Koleman Petroluem at Oke ijebu, Akure and Olusile filing station at Oba-Ile in Akure north local government.
Besides, the DPR has begun the enforcement of the new N86.50k pump price per litre in the two states.
The enforcement followed the decision of independent marketers and even some NNPC stations to sell at the old price of between N120 and N140
The DPR team led by the Acting controller for ondo and Ekti, Godwin Obasuyi in all the stations visited ensured that the marketers sold the products at new price of 86.50k.
Obasuyi who ordered the closure of the two filing stations, expressed displeasure with the marketers for not complying with the federal government’s directive.
He also said the marketers should have rather not bought the product instead of attributing the hike in sales to the high price they got the products from the depot.
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