*litre sells for N400, transport fare increase by 200%
By; AMOS MATHEW, Kaduna
As the scarcity of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) also known as petrol continues to bite harder across the country, motorists in Kaduna State still queue for days to get the commodity at fuel stations.
During a survey of fuel stations by New Nigerian Online reporter, marketers who were hitherto selling at government approved price of N145 per liter were either not dispensing to customers, or selling at N195.
It is also observed that some prefer to sell to roadside black marketers to maximise profit leaving Nigerians who need the commodity for different purposes at euphoria of uncertainty.
This development has led to sharp upward review of inter and intra-city transportation by commercial motorists with more than 200 per cent despite the fact that Christmas has come and gone.
A resident of Kawo, Kaduna North Local Government Area, Kabir Tanimu, who was sighted with petrol in a gallon said, he was forced to buy at N400 per litre from a roadside black marketer after futile efforts to get it from approved filling stations around Mando area in Kaduna.
According to him, “I bought this fuel up there at N400 per liter. It is unfortunate that we have to experience this hardship this holiday time the only time in a year we do celebrate with our loved ones.
“I had to buy four litres at the cost of N1,600 without bargain to power my generating set since PHCN has decided to compliment fuel scarcity and put us in broad day darkness.
Also speaking, Andy Bulus said, “I don’t really know what the problem is because it has become the tradition of successive governments since we returned to democracy in 1999. How can we be suffering like this in our own country as one of the largest oil producing in Africa and 9th in the world.
“I want to believe that, government has over the years failed to come up with sincere political will to address the incessant fuel crisis across the country.”
Meanwhile, people from other parts of the state said they buy fuel between N250 and N300 despite the monitoring by department of petroleum resources in the state.
However, fuel scarcity did not really stop the locals from going to their various places of business and visiting their loved ones within and outside the state capital.
