Fuel scarcity bites harder in Gombe
Some dealers of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly known as fuel have been making huge returns following the return of long queues in Gombe metropolis.
Our correspondent reports that fuel from the black marketers is sold at N300, a few stations that sold placed their tag from N180 to N200 as motorists groan.
One Adamu Haruna, an operator around the Bauchi/Gombe Expressway said he makes no less than N100,000 in a week since the scarcity in the state.
Haruna revealed that the price goes between N250 to N350, stressing that they were saving motorists undue minutes waiting to be attended to.
He noted that they sale unadulterated products to customers, noting that they sometimes settled security operatives who also patrol.
According to him, “I now sell at N300 per litre and there are usually buyers willing to patronise us. The business has been booming since the issue of adulterated fuel or scarcity started. I now make about N100,000 in a week.”
Also Speaking, Abdullahi Sani recalled how they served as alternative to motorists whose fuel away from a nearby station, adding that they are now first choice.
“We are now the main people because our product is original without adulteration before now we only attend to vehicles, motorcycles with fuel pump issues who didn’t calculate well now they deliberately stop to be serviced,” Sani said.
When contacted a source at the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission said they were not oblivious of the sufferings of residents, adding that it was a nationwide challenge.
He said, “It is not only Gombe it is Nationwide, Our own is to monitor to make sure that the trucks supply without it being adulterated.”
Asked if the commission was aware that some stations were hoarding, the source added, “I don’t know about that we were out on surveillance last week and even on Saturday.”
