The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), has closed down not less than nine filling stations in different parts of Sokoto State. The nine affected filling stations were detected out of the total number of sixty-five covered during the exercise across the state. Speaking while addressing journalists at the end of the exercise, the Operation Controller, Sokoto field office of the agency, Muhammad Makera, highlighted the different offences committed by the affected filling stations. According to him, six of the affected filling stations were sealed due to under-delivery of their products to customers, while the remaining three were sealed due to non-availability of safety device within the filling stations. He disclosed that the directive of stopping fuel supply to anywhere within the range of 20km to the border is fully effective.

Source: Nigerian Tribune December 24, 2019 17:48 UTC