BY OMOS OYINBODE, ASABA
Following the scarcity of petrol currently experienced in the country, the product now sells between N95 to N105 per litre in Delta State.
Although some of the major Marketers in the state still dispense the product at the current Federal Government’s approved N87, per litre, relative long queues are being witnessed at such filling stations.
Meanwhile, some of the filling stations visited have since closed shop, saying that they have since exhausted their products as no new product, according to them, have been supplied
Our correspondent, who monitored the situation in Agbor and Asaba-the state capital, reports that despite the increase in the pump price of the commodity, transport fare has remained at its usual rates as transporters have not hiked their charges.
However, some of the transporters who volunteered comments, called on the Federal government to expedite action in ensuring that the product was made available to consumers.
One of the transporters at the Mariere Motor Park in Agbor, administrative headquarters of Ika South Local Government area of the state, who gave his name as Monday Onyeocha, blamed the current scarcity on politicians whom he opined were out to sabotage the transformation efforts of President Goodluck Jonathan and thus; ruin his re-election ambitions.
Meantime it would be recalled that following the scarcity of the product and deliberate efforts to cushion the impact, the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN), had directed its members to begin importation of petrol, following Federal Government’s promise to pay the outstanding debts of subsidy.
