Fuel: Black marketers take over Abuja – Stations hoard product in Lagos – FG behind scarcity – AC – NNPC threatens to deal with saboteurs – Tribune
November 3, 2009 by Bunmi Awolusi
Investigations by Nigerian Tribune, on Monday, revealed that hawkers have taken control of fuel distribution in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. This is just as filling stations in Lagos refused to sell the product to motorists.
Even right beside some of the filling stations, many people were seen taking advantage of the fuel scarcity, turning themselves into emergency fuel hawkers, thus leaving the people to wonder where they got their fuel.
One of the hawkers, Shehu by name, who was seen clutching a 10-litre jerrycan filled with fuel, told the Nigerian Tribune that somebody at the nearby filling station gave him and some of his colleagues the cans of fuel to sell at a discount.
Ten litres of fuel now sell for between N1,500 and N2,000 at the black market, in the federal capital, depending on the buyers’ bargaining power.
