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  • Updated: February 17, 2022

Kano Anti-Corruption Commission Arrests Six Over Petrol Price Hike

Kano Anti-Corruption Commission Arrests Six Over Petrol Pric

Kano State Public Complaint and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC) has on Wednesday, arrested four filing station managers and two fuel attendants over petrol price hike in Kano, as the country battles fuel scarcity due to the importation of bad fuel into the country.

Chairman of the commission, Barrister Mahmoud Balarabe, who stated this while addressing newsmen said those arrested at different filling stations in the Kano metropolis were discovered to be dispensing the product above the official pump price of N165.

Balarabe said the arrest followed a complaint received by the Commission over the hike by some filing stations who took advantage of the current situation to sell at exorbitant prices.

According to him, “On receiving the complaints, the commission swung into action and went to some filling stations along the eastern bypass and Hadejia road, where it found some of them selling petrol at N200 and N208.

“During the operation, we arrested 4 managers of filling stations. One person was arrested while helping the manager of a filling station to adjust the litre above N165.

“The other person is a fuel attendant and we arrested him after his manager scaled a fence and ran away.

“There is a filling station that we found that they already sold 18,000 litres at N200, making N630,000 at the expense of the masses. The other filling station was found to be hoarding over 4,000 litres. We compelled them to continue selling the 4,000 litre to the people,” he said.

Balarabe said the commission would investigate the suspects and hand them over to appropriate authorities for further action.

The commission’s acting chairman however vowed that it would not condone the practice which he termed as “corrupt acts”.

 

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