Mrs Ijeoma Otti-Onyeri, the Assistant Director, Retail Outlets Monitoring, Downstream Division, DPR, the leader of the team ordered Olawale Mojeed, the supervisor on duty to open the station, which was initially under locks, to motorists. Though Mojeed refused, Otti-Onyeri ordered her team of mobile police team to seal the station for failure to carry out her instruction.
The dealer of the filling station, Mr Rasak Fakorede, later came out from hiding with five Mobile Police and some hoodlums and threatened to beat and make sure some of the officials of DPR on inspection were sacked from office, if they put DPR seal on his station.
He claimed the station had been selling the product to motorists and did not at any time stop dispensing fuel.
However, Otti-Onyeri said the owner of the station would be invited by DPR to account for his action.
The monitoring team of DPR, however, visited five filling stations along Lekki-Ajah Road, including Mobil Filling Station, Forte Oil and Petrocam station in Lekki. Others were Oando and World Oil filling stations in Jakande.
At Mobil station, the manager who did not give his name said the station had opening stock of 102,000 litres of petrol, adding that they had daily sales of 45,000. He said the station was expecting another 45,000 litres of petrol before the end of work.
At Forte Oil station in Lekki, Otti-Onyeri ordered the station manager to commence dispensing of the product after discovering that the station was hoarding about 4,500 litres in its underground tanks.
The manager complied with the directive and started selling the product.
Getting to Petrocam station in Lekki, Mr Tayo Adeleke said they had opening stock of 60,000 litres and another 60,000 litres of petrol had just been added to the stock.
At World Oil filling station, a nozzle was discovered to be under dispensing and Otti-Onyeri ordered it to be sealed.
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