How Oil marketers rip off Nigerians, steal N198,500 per truck sold; was revealed by the Director, Weights and Measures Department, Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr Mohammed Sidi.
Sidi said this in Abuja on Wednesday amid a reconnaissance movement of the division to some fuel stations.
He said that the activity was to guarantee that every single business exchange including the utilization of loads and measures were exact, reasonable and lawful.
“Each gauging hardware in all segments of the economy, regardless of whether oil and gas or non-oil and gas must be up to the required standard, ” Sidi said.
At Forte Oil Station, Maitama, inverse Transcorp Hilton, Abuja, the group found that clients lost 0.5 liters of fuel in each 20 liters they purchased.
The group fixed three of the administering siphons and gathered their authentication of illumination.
“This is on the grounds that the authorities of Weights and Measures found that for each 20 liters of fuel administered to clients of the filling station, at the very least 0.5 liters was observed to be a lack to clients.
“We have 33 liters in a truck and when for each 20 liters, it is short with 0.5 liters which implies that in a truck they will make a benefit of N198,500 per truck,” Sidi said.
The group likewise visited Forte Oil station at Ibrahim Babangida Boulevard, inverse National Universities Commission and found that clients were duped by a similar amount of fuel.
The group fixed three administering siphons for oil and one for diesel.
At Dan Oil on Airport Road, the group found that clients lost 0.6 liters for each 20 liters purchased and fixed three petroleum pumps and one diesel pump.
At the filling station, the orderlies immediately balanced a few pumps immediately they noticed the authorities.
The supervisors at all the stations would not remark.
The group additionally visited Mabushi District bond warehouse and guaranteed packs of concrete found in the spot as having the correct amount.
The sacks of concrete checked were Bua, Dangote and Sokoto bond items.
The Chairman of the warehouse Mr Maxwell Nnamani said that the station constantly kept up principles and asked different merchants to do same.
Nnamani said that in spite of the fact that the issue of re-sacking had been an issue in the business, it was being tended to.
The group additionally visited the 7UP Company at Idu Industrial Area to gauge diverse items.
At ShopRite shopping center at the Jabi Lake, the group communicated fulfillment subsequent to estimating diverse items.
“We are upbeat in light of the fact that there is a great deal of progress from the non-oil parts contrasted with what we saw previously,’ Sidi said.
He spoke to individuals from the open report any speculated disparities by items’ merchants to the division to empower it to carry out its responsibility better. (NAN)
