Osun Marketers Sell Fuel At N100 Per Litre

Many petroleum marketers in Osun State have been discovered to be selling the product above the approved pump price of N86.50k per litre, National Mirror has learnt. Checks revealed that only filling stations in Osogbo, the state capital, had fully complied with the approved pump price, while

the product is still being sold at the rate of N100 in most parts of the state. Some marketers that own filing stations in the state capital and other towns within the state, it was also gathered, though complying with the approved pump price in their stations in Osogbo, however, sell above pump price
in their filing stations in other parts of the state. In Ikirun, headquarters of Ifelodun Local Government Area of the state, a litre of petrol is sold for N100 in all filling stations in the town. Investigations revealed that a petroleum marketer that attempted to sell the product at the approved pump price was compelled by other marketers to sell at N100. Commenting on the development in Ikirun on Sunday, an official of Nation Union of Road Transport Workers NURTW, Basiru Magaji and a civil servant residing in Ilesa, lamented what they called “exploitative tendencies” of the petrol marketers. In similar vein during telephone chats, an Ifebased private school owner, Darius Olayoonu and a community leader in Okuku, a town in Odo Otin local government area, Mr. Olagunju Kolade, demanded drastic action from the officials of Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, to end the improper pricing of the product. Olagunju said: “From what we gathered, these marketers have agreed among themselves not to sell at N86. We consider this as an act of impunity. Many of them that have filing stations in Osogbo are selling at the approved price there, but sell at N100 in other parts of the state. Government must help us to end this anomaly.”