Petrol Scarcity Worsens in Lagos as Transporters Allege Rationing By Marketers

According to a source who revealed this to THISDAY, to ensure compliance to the rule, the marketers, whose turn it is not to sell on a particular date resort to hoarding the product in the day time while selling to black marketers at night and above approved price.
“Any filling station that is not selling is just obeying what they have agreed because anyone that  disobeys, their leaders will deal with him. That’s why you see queues in one filling station, while another is closed.
“The person (the black marketer) that supplies me said they are the ones having fuel now because they are sure of buying from the filling stations anytime in the night when nobody is watching,” the source who pleaded to remain anonymous said.