The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence
Corps (NSCDC), has warned petroleum marketers in Ogun state against hoarding
and diversion of fuel in the state.
The spokesman of the state command
of NSCDC, Dyke Ogbonaya, who made this known, said the State Commandant of the
Corps, Ayodele Philip, issued the warning based on the intelligence gathered by
the Corps in the state that some petrol stations had started hoarding the
product to create artificial scarcity, thereby inflicting unnecessary pains on
the masses.
Philip according to him said any erring
petrol station would be made to face the full wrath of law, as no individuals
would be treated as sacred cow, no matter how highly placed.
The NSCDC boss said: "All the
petrol stations owners in the state are hereby implored to monitor their staffs
very well, especially the attendants, as the command would not entertain any
excuse for any sharp practice arising from the sales of the product”.
Consequently, the Commandant has
ordered the deployment of more marine officers to the riverine border-towns to
checkmate oil bunkering and diversions to neighbouring countries through the
waterways in the state.
Meanwhile, in another development,
barely two weeks after the interception of 73 bags of rice by the operatives of
the state command, another 50 bags of smuggled rice had been intercepted by
them from suspected smugglers.
The spokesman who also made this
known said the latest development which brought the total bags of rice
intercepted by operatives of the Corps to 123 bags in less than two weeks, took
place on the waterways along Ijofin axis in the Ipokia Local Government Area of
the state.
Ogbonnaya said the Corps Marine
Squad was patrolling the waterways against oil bunkering and diversion when
they sighted the boat conveying the rice allegedly accompanied by two
smugglers.
He said: "The Marine Squad gave
the smugglers a hot chase which forced them to abandon everything and jumped
into the river to escape”.
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