The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) said it had sealed six independent marketers’ filling stations in Sokoto and its environs for various offences.
The Zonal Operations Controller of the department in charge of Sokoto and Kebbi states, Alhaji Mohammed Makera, disclosed this to journalists in Sokoto today, shortly after a raid on some filling stations.
Makera said five of the filling stations were sealed for selling petrol above the official pump price of N87 per litre and fined N100,000 each while the sealing of the others was for hoarding, and the fillng stations fined N200,000.
“All the sealed filling stations would not be reopened until they write an undertaking to sell petroleum products at the government-approved pump prices,” he stated.
Makera warned the marketers against contravening the government regulations, vowing to duly sanction any erring filling station in the two states.