The DPR’s new Operation Controller in the state, Phillips Salvation, alongside other officials, monitored petrol stations in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, to ensure that they comply with rules guiding the purchase and selling of the products.
The monitoring process included checking of metres, the quantity of fuel in the tanks and the quality of the fuel being sold, among others.
Those found wanting were fined with two million naira each and their stations were sealed.
The monitoring team had to move in company of security operatives due to an ugly incident that occurred a day earlier, where some officials of DPR were attacked by hoodlums.
However, the manager of the station, while explaining the situation, absolved his staff of any attempt to attack the staff of DPR, but blamed it on petroleum buyers who thought they were about stopping the sale of petrol, having waited for hours.
The Controller, however, gave the assurance that the monitoring would be a continuous exercise and warned filling stations to abide by the rules and regulations.
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