8 Fuel Stations Shut For Cheating Customers

Eight filling stations within the Karu/Nyanya axis in the FCT had their pumps sealed off on Thursday by the Weight and Measures Department of the Commerce and Industry Ministry.

Mr David Adejuwon, Acting Director of Trade in the ministry, who led the team, said the filling stations were under dispensing fuel to their customers.

He said there was need for Nigerians to have value for their money whenever they buy goods and services.

Adejuwon said Nigerians had suffered enough without getting value for what they buy, especially at filling stations.

He said the monitoring exercise, which started on Thursday in Abuja, would also be carried out in the 36 states.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that some of the fuel stations affected were Mobil filling stations on Karu-Jikwoyi road found to be under dispensing diesel and kerosene.

NAN also reports that the two A. A. Rano stations in Nyanya and Karu had almost all its pumps sealed off for under dispensing fuel.

Others affected were AP filling station at Mopol Junction and NNPC mega station at Nyanya Shopping Centre.

NAN also reports that the only filling station found over dispensing fuel unknowingly was the NNPC mega station in Nyanya.

Mrs Grace Haruna, a customer, expressed delight at the monitoring exercise and called for constant routine checks at filling stations.

She also called on government to always support the exercise by providing the manpower and logistics needed.

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7 Comments

paullo says:

July 5, 2010 at 9:35 am

how do we reach this ministry to give them names of filling stations to come and check here in lagos. We are suffering here in lagos in their hands. They need to come here and save us.

save de poor says:

July 4, 2010 at 7:19 pm

i don,t blame them 4 their shar practice that is one out of millions, every body want to survive at the expense of his brother, our leaders have set the exemple aand other follows, corruption have taking over all the sector of our life courtesy of our leaders,my innermost being weep every day 4 my country, i beleive that God will save us.

Laide says:

July 4, 2010 at 5:34 pm

It is shocking having NNPC station amongst the culpable ones, from which we take our solace, then, where are we to go again. Infact, the good work should continue unabated to ward off all these thieves that call themselves marketers.

Bold Truth says:

July 3, 2010 at 5:35 pm

To seal fuel stations irrespective of what the have done is a bad idea that would hurt consumers than the stations. What we need to do is to let the stations be open to sell to the public, but let them pay a fine of at least the value of a whole tanker of petroleum product and assess monthly interest if the fine is not paid within a month. In this way, they at the risk of loosing more money. If the fine and its interest is not paid at all, then the government should get a court judgement to auction the property.

Korede says:

July 2, 2010 at 8:33 pm

All hands most be on deck both the official designated nd the public at large to sanitize dis criminal,dubious practise by those whom are to render good service bt sabotaging and genociding dis great nation by cheating her citizen..they are to face the wrath of the law and use has scape goat..my acolades to the patrotic office incharge of this excersice..

IYKE CHYKE says:

July 2, 2010 at 4:11 pm

I am surprised to find NNPC station involved, I used to think that they are exempted from the sharp practices of these filling stations. The regulatory body should do more work on this issue, especially in Lagos. There is this station at Tipper Garage Ketu- lagos, they have been shut many times and reopened, yet the cheating persists, i think they should be sanctioned more than they are doing now in order to make cheating unattractive to them in future.

popoola says:

July 2, 2010 at 3:51 pm

Ceiling the stations will hurt consumers. Give the fuel stations hefty fines, from which you will enrich your treasury. By the way, where have the Department been all these years? It means that someone has not been performing his duties.