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Premium Motor Spirit, popularly know as petrol is now sold for N1,000
per liter in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and it has caused
passengers, motorists stranded.The situation is not different from other
parts of the country.
Lagos is facing scarcity as petrol sell for N450 or more per litre as
against the official price of N165. This has caused queues as motorists
locking roads to petrol stations and hold- up on roads and passengers
stranded.
At the FCT, latest checks by revealed that the non-availability of fuel
has led to a boom in “black market” sales, as motorists have opted
to patronize the only available channel of getting the product.
Taking advantage to make brisk sales, black marketers in Kurudu area of
Abuja sell litre of fuel at 1,000 naira, while 10 liters is sold for
N4,500 in Gwarimpa area.
I bought two liters of fuel for two thousand naira from black market,
because no filling station is selling around my area. From Kurudu to
town is now 1200, Keke to Nyanya is 500.
“10 liters of fuel in the black market now sells for N4,500 in the
Gwarimpa area,” a motorist lamented.
Commuters in their large numbers are stranded because the number of
commercial vehicles plying the routes of Abuja have drastically reduced.
Most passengers and motorists now opt to trek distances, as fewer
vehicles are on the road.
The importation of millions of adulterated PMS from Europe into Nigeria,
as claimed by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, has no doubt
disrupted the fuel supply system of the country, leading to long queues
and untold hardships to Nigerians.
