Fuel subsidy: Kwara govt warns marketers against hoarding

Date: 2023-05-30

Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) Chairman and Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has cautioned oil marketers to avoid imposing needless hardship on the citizens through creation of artificial fuel scarcity in the state and beyond.

The warning is coming barely hours after reports of arbitrary increase in the pump price of fuel and artificial scarcity by marketers in the state which followed President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s declaration to end fuel subsidy in the country.

“The Governor is seriously concerned about reports of sudden fuel scarcity in different parts of the state. This is totally uncalled for. He asks fuel marketers to immediately discharge fuel to the public under the normal pricing system since they had bought what they currently have at subsidised rates,” according to a Government House statement by his spokesman, Rafiu Ajakaye, in Ilorin on Tuesday morning.

“Creating artificial scarcity amounts to intentional misrepresentation of the statement of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, on the question of fuel subsidy. The people should not be made to undergo any hardship.

“The Governor urges the marketers to desist from anything that qualifies as economic sabotage of the people. Hoarding fuel bought at subsidised price and creating panic in the state is opportunistic and will not be condoned.

“His Excellency the Deputy Governor Mr. Kayode Alabi will be leading a task force to ensure that no fuel marketer causes undue hardship to the citizens in Kwara State.”

“Fuel stations are to note that the Task Force will dip into their pits. Any filling stations found to be hoarding fuel will have their Certificate of Occupancy (CofO) revoked, among other penalties,” the statement warned.

Source

 


Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

KWASSIP     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin     VADA     Olatunji Bamgbola     Oba Abu     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     Fatai Garuba Labaka     Rapheal Ashaolu     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Isaac Gbenle     Kwara Politics     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Hausa     Saba Mamman Daniel     Jebba     Oye Tinuoye     Usman Alkali Baba     Hamza Usman     Olabimpe Olani     Yusuf Arowosaye     Muftau Akanbi Oke     Simon Sayomi     Kishira     Sa\'adu Salahu     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Smart School     A.O. Belgore     Hassan A. Saliu     Ishaq Salman     Madawaki     Sheikh Alimi     Tunde Akanbi     Zaratu Umar     Kanu Agabi     Abdulahi Abubakar Bata     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Quran     TESCOM     Abubakar Imam     Kwara Consultative Forum     Kwha.gov.ng     Obasanjo     Umar Ayinla Saro     Eleja Taiwo Banu     Turaki     Abraysports FC     Tosin Saraki     Ogidi-Oloje     Tope Daramola     National Information Technology Development Agency     Jimoh Lambe Abdulkareem     Kolawole Bashirat     Oro Grammar School     Fola Consultant     Adeniyi Ojo     Dapo Teni Nig Enterprise     Awwal Jawondo     Modibo Kawu     Overland     Frootify     Ahmed Alhasssan     Omoniyi Ayinla     Amusa Bello     Olupako Of Share     Owo Arugbo     Alfa Belgore     Shuaib Boni Aliyu     Oniwasi Agbaye     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     Oke-Ero     Abdulwasiu Bolaji Adeyi     Elections     Lukman Adeloyin     Tunde Yusuf    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Omoniyi M. Ayinla     Akanji     Alikinla     Amada Jidda     Mohammed Katsina Ahmed     Paul Olawoore     Muhammad Yahya     Moshood Bakare     Nigeria Customs Service     Suleiman Mora Omar     Forgo Battery Company Limited     Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Madawaki     Kwara     Oke-Ode     Elekoyangan     Adesoye College     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Muhammed Abdullahi     Danladi     AbdulGaniyu Kareem     Matthew Okedare     Aliyu Alhassan     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Isaac Aderemi Kolawole     Old Oyo     Javed Khan     Yahaya Abdulkareem Babaita     Adeleke Ogungbe     IEDPU     Kwabes     Village Alive Development Association     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Dasuki Belgore     Alumni Association Of The Federal Polytechnic Offa     Olohungbebe     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     NNPP     Ekweremadu     Oluwole Dupe     Oko Erin     Solomon Edoja     Mufti Of Ilorin     Abdul-Rahoof Bello     Elerin Of Adanla Irese     Boko Haram     Ramadan     Muslim Media Watch Group Of Nigeria     Yakubu Shaaba     Kwara State Government     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Joseph Yemi Ajayi     KWASSIP     Oloyede     Malete     Oloriegbe     Tanke     Government High School Adeta     Adam Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Bashirat Bola Bello     KWTV     Abdulrazaq Magaji     Abdulkareem Alabi     Saad Belgore     Muhammed Danjuma     Afonja Descendants Union     Abdulazeez Uthman     Muritala Awodun     Mutawalle     Iponrin     Ado Ibrahim     Onilu     PPS     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     Saka Isau