Caleb Tamunosaki
The resurgence of fuel scarcity in some cities of federation has hit Yenagoa and adjoining communities in Bayelsa State.
Fuel queues suddenly sprang up in most fillings stations that were dispensing the product in the state capital.
Our correspondent who monitored the fuel situation observed that so many filling stations were not selling the product to anxious motorists and shop owners.
Fuel attendants and managers of the filling stations took advantage of the scarcity and the crowd at the filling stations to increase the pump price.
In fact motorists were at the mercy of the fuel station operators who sold at grossly inflated prices above the pump price.
The litre of fuel was selling for as high N300, 250, N215, N200, N185 in the filling stations operated by Indepedent marketers.
The only station in Yenagoa which where the product was still selling at N162 per litre was the NNPC mega filling station along Sani Abacha Express Way.
Many motorists who besieged the Mega station couldn’t get the product because of the massive crowd of people with Jerry cans and long queue of motorists desperately struggling to get the product.
Some of the youths took advantage of the fuel queues to make brisk business from the scarcity as they sell the products at between N400 and N500 per liter at the black market.
The State Chairman of IPMAN,
Mr. Erefaghamote Peters, said that the current scarcity may not last long as efforts were being made to address it.
