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Fuel scarcity: Osun govt raids filling stations, orders hoarders to start dispensing

The Osun State Special Taskforce set up by the State Government to monitor the petroleum shortage raided some filling stations on Thursday and ordered the manager of Muhy International Investment filling station at Ayekale, Osogbo, to start dispensing about 800 litres of petroleum products being hoarded in it’s PMS tank while citizens of the state are shouting about the scarcity of fuel.

The Taskforce team comprises the Commissioner for Government House and Protocol, Honourable Soji Ajeigbe; the Commissioner for Youths, Hon. Moshood Olagunju; and two Special Advisers to the Governor, Hon. Babatunde Badmus and Alhaji Nurudeen Emiloju Among others, frowned at the inhuman attitude of the filling station and described the act as wicked.

The Taskforce, which has the Chief of Staff to the Governor, Alhaji Kazeem Akinleye, as the chairman, also went around filling stations in Osogbo, Ifón, and Ilobu in the company of other members like the Honourable Niyi Olaniyan, S.A. Policy Coordination, and security agents to prevent hoarding of fuel.

The task force further inspected PMS tanks of other stations that were not dispensing the products to ascertain that they were not hoarding the product and visited major and independent marketers as well as NNPC retail stations in Osogbo, Olorunda, Irepodun, and Orolu local government areas of the state.

Speaking with petroleum marketers and other road users waiting to buy the products, Hon. Soji Ajeigbe appreciated the managers of the filling stations that were seen dispensing the products.

He said, “The Taskforce was not out to shut down or witch-hunt any petroleum marketer but to ensure that any station found hoarding the product started dispensing the products immediately to the members of the public.”

Hon. Ajeigbe, however, charged members of the public to be orderly and law-abiding and assured that the state government is doing everything possible to facilitate more allocation of PMS to the state from the depots in Lagos and Port Harcourt.

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