Fuel scarcity: Osun NSCDC warns against hoarding

Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Osun State Command, has ordered its operatives to go after the filling stations hoarding fuel in the state.

This was contained in a statement by Kehinde Adeleke, the acting Publiic Relations Officer for NSCDC Osun Command, obtained in Osogbo on Friday.

Adeleke also disclosed that the state Commandant of the Corps, Sunday Agboola, has ordered Anti-Vandals Squad of the Command to embark on routine monitoring of activities of filling stations to prevent hoarding.

She warned that the Corps would ensure that any marketer found hoarding fuel would not escape punishment.

The statement read in part, “The NSCDC boss said he is making frantic efforts to ensure that all filling stations involved in hoarding of premium motor spirit which has led to scarcity in the state would face the full wrath of the law.

“It is a known fact that there is a shortage of fuel supply in the country, notwithstanding, filling stations should not use the opportunity to bring untold hardship on citizens.

“We have our plainclothes operatives who are on surveillance in all the stations in the state and this will continue until sanity returns to the system.”

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