Residents of Port
Harcourt, especially house wives, have cried out over the escalating cost of the price of kerosene of some filling stations in the state.
Investigations by our correspondent showed that some filling stations in Port Harcourt  sell the product between N150.00 and N160.00.
Some of them who spoke to The Tide  correspondent  claimed that coloured kerosene  was sold to them at the  rate of N120.00 while the type described as white was sold  at a higher price.
Mr. Uche Onye, who spoke to The Tide described the development  as very sad.
According to him, he bought the product  recently at the rate of N150.00
He expressed the fear that most Nigerians  could not afford  to even  buy a bottle  of kerosene. For James Iche, the development was  a big challenge  to him. He explained hat most of the times, he likes cooking beans. According to him, while  beans  takes longer time to cook, a bottle  of kerosene was not enough to meet his need.
“I like  beans a lot, but now one bottle of kerosene can no longer  serve me,” he said.
A housewife, Mrs. Teresa Eze expressed  the fear  of a adulterated type of kerosene in some filling  stations.
She claimed that the odour and colour were irritating to the eyes. It could be recalled that that the federal government  few months ago increased the price of kerosene from N50.00 per litre to N86.00 per litre, a policy that has not gone well with majority of Nigerians.