FG Seals 10 Petrol Stations In Kaduna

The Federal Government last Friday sealed 10 petrol filling stations in Kaduna State for violating the rules on weight and measures.

The North West Co-ordinator of the Department of Weight and Measures in the Federal Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Alhaji Mohammed Sada, ordered the closure during an unscheduled inspection tour of the stations.

 He said that the affected stations, including two Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) mega stations, were disciplined for short-changing customers with about N1.80 kobo per litre.

 Sada said transparency and sincerity in economic transactions were key to achieving Vision 20:2020.

 “Getting value for money in business transactions is a major benefit of the vision, which cannot be realised without strict adherence to the rule of law and transparency by stakeholders in the economic sector,” he added. 

He explained that one of the goals of the vision was to instil discipline, transparency, fairness and equity in the country’s business environment.

Sada said that in carrying out the exercise, the department would not spare any sector of the economy, including the oil and gas industry as well as markets, where measures, metres or kilos were used as standards for measurement.

He said the exercise would continue until petrol stations complied with the rules, warning that other options of prosecution would be used to enforce compliance.

Sada said the department would soon start raiding markets and stores, where instruments for measurement were applied in business transactions across the country to instil discipline in trades.

He appealed to consumers to ensure that they always got value for any product or service they paid for.

The outlets that were sealed include the two NNPC mega filling stations at Mando and Nnamdi Azikwe Road in Kaduna metropolis.

Others are Usumania, Asaka, Royal Arms and Danamar filling stations located n Nnamdi Azikwe Road, while four petrol pumps and one diesel pump were sealed at Edi Jen filling station on Ahmadu Bello Way.