According to DAILY POST, worsening fuel scarcity has caused an increase in transport fares of vehicles and commercial motorcycles in the state.

DAILY POST correspondents reports that a trip from the state capital, to Mafara, which used to be N500 per passenger, is now N1000. Information Guide Nigeria

The correspondent noted that commercial motorcycles no longer collect N50 and have increased transportation  fares to N100 and N120.

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A motorcycle rider, Ahmadu Adamu said, “The dealers are sabotaging the efforts of the state Task Force on security that order filling stations not to sell fuel to anybody with jerrican due to banditry activities in the state.”

Speaking with DAILY POST, a member of the  Petroleum Tankers Drivers Association, name withheld, said that fuel scarcity in the state was not caused by the association but artificial scarcity.

He added that petroleum dealers in the state were only doing so to sabotage the efforts of the federal government in order to portray president Buhari as a weak leader.

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