Fuel: Emmanuel, DSS urged to intervene in A’Ibom

The leadership of a human rights organisation, the Centre for Human Rights and Accountability Network, has urged Akwa Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel, the Department of State Services, the Department of Petroleum Resources, and other relevant agencies to investigate the price increase and adulteration of petroleum products in the state.

Otuekong Isong, State Director of CHRAN, stated this on Friday while unveiling the organization’s state executives at the Watbridge Hotel and Suites in Uyo.

He bemoaned the fact that these agencies had remained silent on the plight of Akwa Ibom people, as marketers had set the price of fuel at N300 even with adjusted metres.

Isong, who stated that his office had received reports of many fuel stations selling adulterated petrol, resulting in damage to fuel pumps and engines of many vehicles in Akwa Ibom State, urged the DSS to extend the ultimatum it gave to marketers in Abuja to revert to government approved pump price to Akwa Ibom State and ensure that the ultimatum is followed by petroleum marketers in the state.Information Guide Nigeria

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While urging the DPR to do more in the area of monitoring filling stations to ensure that they are not dispensing in adjusted metre or adulterated products, he also urged the Special Assistant to the Governor on Petroleum Matters, Mr. Victor Etefia, to “live up to his responsibilities” in ensuring that marketers comply with the government prescribed price, even as he questioned why no filling station had been sealed off or sanctioned for flouting the government’s diversionary policy even as he wondered why no filling station had been sealed off or sanctioned for flouting government’s directive.

He said, “Where did we get this fuel price increase from? why are we buying a litre of fuel in Akwa Ibom at N300 and above? I cannot understand where this is coming from. The pumps in most areas are adjusted and the fuel itself adulterated and nobody is doing anything about it.

“CHRAN is using this medium to call on the SSA to the Governor on Petroleum Monitoring, Mr Victor Etefia, to rise to the occasion and address the people of the state on the matter. Let’s know why we are getting fuel at N300 and above per litre, what is the cause of it? Let’s know why the pumps are adjusted, we want to know why we are getting adulterated fuel in Akwa Ibom?NYSC portal

“Recall that in the days of former SSAs, they used to monitor filling stations to know what is happening there and any erring station would be sealed off. We are also calling on DPR a subsidiary of NNPC whose duty it is to check the malpractices of petrol stations to come to Akwa Ibom State to see what is happening here.

“We are calling on the DSS that issued ultimatum to marketers in Abuja that they should revert to the official pump price because this particular increase, is economic sabotage. We are asking the DSS in Akwa Ibom why they have not gone to check the pump price in the state? We are suffering, we are calling on the state government, the SSA to Governor on Petroleum Matters, the DPR, and the DSS to intervene as the suffering is untoward.”JAMB portal

“We are going further to look at the local government and see how the communities are faring so also we will be doing with the House members. You can’t stay at the comfort of your home to know what the government is doing, rather we have to go to the field. So CHRAN is going to give a good balancing to government because the state governor cannot be everywhere at the same time, all we need in the state is good governance.

“We want the candidates during our town hall forum to speak on their manifesto and explain how they will implement the programmes and manifestoes,” he said.JAMB Result

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