The Kano State Public Complaint and Anti-corruption Commission, PCACC, has arrested four managers and two fuel attendants for selling Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, otherwise known as petroleum above the official pump price of N165 in the state.
Speaking at a press conference, held at his office on Tuesday, the acting chairman of the commission, Mahmoud Balarabe, said the arrests were made at different filling stations in the Kano metropolis.
According to him, the commission had received several complaints from residents that despite the scarcity of petroleum, some filling stations are selling it between N200 and N208 in the state.
Mr Balarabe said on receiving the complaints, the commission swung into action and went to some filling stations along eastern bypass and Hadejia road, where it found some of them are selling petroleum at N200 and N208.
“During the operation, we have arrested 4 managers of filling stations. One person was arrested while helping the manager of a filling station to adjust the liter above N165.
“The other person is a fuel attendant and we arrested him after his manager climbed fence and ran away.
“There is a filling station that we found that they already sold 18,000 litres at N200, making N630,000 at the expense of innocent people. The other filling station was found to be hoarding over 4,000 litres. We compelled them to continue selling the 4,000 litre to the people,” he said as reported by Daily Nigerian.
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Mr Balarabe, who was visibly angry about the situation, said the commission would investigate the suspects and hand them over to appropriate authorities for further action.
He lamented that despite resurfacing of fuel queues in the state, the managers of filling stations still inflict hardship on people by adjusting the fuel pump litre above the official N165 price.
The acting chairman vowed that the commission would not condone what he described as “corrupt acts”, adding that the commission would continue with the operation until it gets rid of the unscrupulous elements in the midst of people.
