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Nigeria - Corruption here, corruption there, corruption everywhere.
An NNPC filling station in Lagos according to The Cable, is selling petrol – but only to consumers who are willing to hand out a bribe, ranging from N200 to N1,000.
On Saturday evening, the filling station, located exactly opposite the First Bank on Kudirat Abiola Way, Oregun, Lagos, left the legitimate entry permanently closed and instead sold fuel to motorists entering through the exit way.
At 2:45pm attendants sold fuel to two classes of people: those legitimately queued up in front of the entryway, and those who paid bribes to enter through the exit.
While the legitimate queue was slower as there were 20 t0 30 cars in it at any particular time, the illegal queue was faster and there was never a time when more than four cars were in it.
But just before 3:30pm, the filling station closed the legitimate entry and began selling fuel only to those paying bribes and entering the station through the exit. When some of those in the legitimate queue sought answers, an attendant dismissively told them: “We have closed.”
Despite repeated appeals from consumers in the legitimate queue, the attendants became more blatant in perpetrating their illegality, in fact allowing cars stuffed with 25-litre and 50-litre jerry cans into the premises.
This is happening four days after NNPC GMD, Ibe Kachikwu, delivered a rallying cry to the country, and particularly called for an NNPC that is “united in the solution to this problem.”
An NNPC filling station in Lagos according to The Cable, is selling petrol – but only to consumers who are willing to hand out a bribe, ranging from N200 to N1,000.
On Saturday evening, the filling station, located exactly opposite the First Bank on Kudirat Abiola Way, Oregun, Lagos, left the legitimate entry permanently closed and instead sold fuel to motorists entering through the exit way.
At 2:45pm attendants sold fuel to two classes of people: those legitimately queued up in front of the entryway, and those who paid bribes to enter through the exit.
While the legitimate queue was slower as there were 20 t0 30 cars in it at any particular time, the illegal queue was faster and there was never a time when more than four cars were in it.
But just before 3:30pm, the filling station closed the legitimate entry and began selling fuel only to those paying bribes and entering the station through the exit. When some of those in the legitimate queue sought answers, an attendant dismissively told them: “We have closed.”
Despite repeated appeals from consumers in the legitimate queue, the attendants became more blatant in perpetrating their illegality, in fact allowing cars stuffed with 25-litre and 50-litre jerry cans into the premises.
This is happening four days after NNPC GMD, Ibe Kachikwu, delivered a rallying cry to the country, and particularly called for an NNPC that is “united in the solution to this problem.”