The Warri Zonal Office of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) says it has sealed over 80 fuel stations in Delta state since fuel scarcity begun in December, 2017.
The Operations Controller of the Warri Zonal Office, Antai Asuquo, made this known to newsmen on Wednesday in Warri shortly after a statewide monitoring of filling stations.
It was discovered that most of the filling stations were sealed in Warri, Ughelli, Sapele, Isoko and Asaba.
Asuquo, who led a group of surveillance team to Asaba, said that petrol stations were sealed for various offences ranging from selling above the government approved price of N145 per litre and absconding on sighting DPR officials.
“DPR has sealed over 80 filling stations since the fuel scarcity began last month,” he said.
“Those we sealed are because they refused to dispense at the government approved price of N145 per litre and those that abandoned their retail outlets on sighting our personnel.
“Today, we have been to many filling stations in Asaba; one actually abandoned his station and we sealed the facilities because they have an equivalent product of 30,000 litres.
“We will revisit the station to ensure that appropriate sanction is meted out on the owner.
“We also saw stations selling above the approved pump price; we compelled them to sell at the regulated pump price.”
