LOOMING HIKE IN PRICES OF PETROLEUM PRODUCTS
Queues have started resurfacing at some filling stations in Akure, the ondo state capital as some filling stations locked their gatest and turned back against motorists
According to information gathered from some of the petrol dealers at the filling stations, who preferred to be anonymous, said a situation is coming gradually that some filling stations will not be able to lift the products and forced out of market.
The dealers posit that the situation presently, as they are lifting the product, premium motor spirit ( PMS ) known as petrol at #142 per liter, leaving just a margin of #3 to bear all other cost like haulaging , staff, maintanance and related ones on the little gain can not work.
While the dealers argued that federal government should quickly intervein on the matter to prevent another round of hike in price of petrol in the country.
A similar situation is the current hike in prices of kilogrammes of cooking gas that has recently went up drastically, leaving many housewives to result to charcoal and firewood as substitute for the gas.
At many of the gas filling points visited, the story is the same. A cylinder of 12.5kg that filled for #3,750 before now rose to #5,000 or more, while the student's size gas of 5kg is now #2,750 or more. Meaning a kilogramme of gas now sold for #400 per kilogramme
Mrs Mojisola Omotosho, a house wife complained bitterly on this development, calling on federal government to rise to the occasion, by making the necessary moves at addressing the hardship currently been faced by the citizens.
She noted that Nigerians as a country ought to have get out of age of using firewood to cook, that the cooking gas should have been piped to different communities like the way electricity is been distributed across the country, while every household pay for such services, instead of wasting the gas by flaring it, yet still sell to the citizens at high prices.
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