‘Fake DPR Officers Operating In Rivers’

The Department of
Petroleum Resources, (DPR) in Port Harcourt has raised alarm over activities of fake officers of the agency in the state.
The Operations Controller of the DPR in Port Harcourt, Mrs Chioma Njoku, who raised the alarm called on Petroleum marketers to beware of fake individuals parading as officers of the agency.
According to Njoku, these fake DPR officials move round some filling stations where they extort money from unsuspecting members of the public.
Describing the situation as disturbing, the controller urged both petroleum marketers and members of the public to be at alert and to resist any attempt by any officer of the agency requesting or demanding bribe from them, stressing that no genuine officer of the agency would make such demand.
She disclosed that officials of the agency who were on surveillance duty once met some fake DPR officials at a filling station who ran away immediately they saw the officials.
“We are working hard to tell the public how to differentiate between a genuine and fake officer of the agency.
“Those impersonating us are there to extort money from the marketers and the marketers must beware of this set of people”.
The operations controller warned that anybody caught impersonating DPR officials would be dealt with according to the law.

Chris Oluoh