The Oyo State govt has called on the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to start monitoring petroleum stations in Oyo State and sanction marketers found hoarding their products.
The State Commissioner for Public Works and Transport, Professor Daud Kehinde Sangodoyin, made the call on Monday while featuring on a radio programme in Ibadan, the state capital.
Sangodoyin said the scarcity of fuel that started on Sunday was artificial, as there was no reason for most of the marketers not to sell to the people.
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Most fuel stations in Ibadan were not selling fuel to motorists, while those selling experienced long queues, a development that also contributed to traffic gridlock in some parts of the metropolis.
“As the government, we are doing all we can to make life easy for the people of Oyo State and this is reflected in the number of infrastructural projects around the state. For some people to be creating artificial scarcity of fuel for pecuniary reasons is wrong and inhuman.
“The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) should, as a matter of urgency, swing into action and arrest the situation. They have the work of monitoring cut out for them, and this is the moment to bring those marketers sabotaging government by hoarding products to book,” he said.
