Five filling stations were on Wednesday shut in various areas of Ogun State by a monitoring team from the Ministry of Trade and Investment for sharp practices.
They were alleged to have tampered with their fuel dispensing pumps, and were short-changing their customers.
One of the filling stations shut include an NNPC Mega station along the Lagos -Abeokuta Expressway in Ifo council area of the state. Continue....
The other filling stations shut down at Sango area of the state are EMIMP petroleum, Vitality Oil and Gas, NIPCO and Conoil.
The fuel stations were sealed off during a monitoring exercise conducted by officials of the Department of Weights and Measures of the ministry.
Head of the monitoring team, Mr. Mohammed Sadasidi, told journalists after the exercise that the filling stations were discovered to be under dispensing petroleum products to customers.
He said, “The dispensing pumps of the filling station had been reduced by between 2.75 litres and 2.95 litres from every 20 litres of petrol sold to customers.”
He further stated that they detected this after checking their meters “with our own Seraphin Test Measure, we found out that in every 20 litres they sold, they only dispensed between 17 litres and 18 litres.”
Sadasidi explained that the defaulters whose dispensing pumps were not within the tolerable error had been invited to Abuja for questioning.
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