The Kano State Public Complaints and Anti-Corruption Commission (PCACC) has warned petrol marketers across the state against diverting their products.
Mr Muhyi Magaji-Rimingado gave the warning on Monday in Kano, while briefing newsmen on the long queues that surfaced in some fuel stations in the state.
According to him, I have been receiving calls since morning from different people across the state to check the cause of the scarcity.
“Therefore, we swung into action by checking the fuel stations in the state to ascertain the cause.
“But we have come to realise that most of the stations are closed because there is no supply from the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
“The NNPC said they distributed the product today.
“We asked them to provide us with the manifest for the distribution of the petroleum products in the state so that by tomorrow, we will use it to visit those stations.
“We will take legal action against any marketer found guilty of hoarding the product, hence, they are advised to avoid such acts,” he advised.
Magaji-Rimingado further urged essential commodity marketers in the state to avoid artificial increase of prices for their goods because of the holy month of Ramadan where people needed them.
“I had a meeting with Dangote and BUA group of companies, they assured us that they will not increase prices of their goods. Therefore, the retailers should avoid increasing the prices of their products.
“The situation is not like that of last year, where the commission had to raid some markets over artificial price increase, but rather the major companies assured that 4,500 trailers of food items are already in the state so as to flood the markets and reduce the hardship on consumers.
“Hence, there is no reason for any trader to inflict hardship on the people by unnecessarily increasing prices of food items,” Magaji-Rimingado said.
