As Fuel Scarcity Bites Harder In Jos, Motorists Groan Over It’s Hike In Pump Price
The Oasis Reporters
October 30, 2022
By Asile Abel, Jos
Long queues have returned to filling stations in Jos, the Plateau State capital and its environs, following alleged scarcity of petroleum products forcing most motorists in the city to express concern .
Some of the motorists, who spoke in Jos, also alleged that some petrol marketers have increased the price of Premium Motor Spirit, otherwise commonly called petrol.
Black marketers of the product seem to be having a field day, selling a litre of fuel at N300-N400 in many parts of Jos city .
Many motorists were forced to patronise them as the unpalatable alternative was to wait for hours in filling stations.
Our correspondent who visited Dogon Karfe community observed that a gallon of fuel now sells for 1,500 by black marketers of the product.
Amid long queues and waiting hours in Jos some filling stations sold a litre of the Premium Motor Spirit at N250/litre as against the approved pump price of N180-N185/litre.
This has consequently led to increase in the price of goods around Jos metropolis due to the rising cost of transportation.
Bulus, a taxi driver at old airport junction said, “Black marketers sell four litres at N1,500 ,this has forced us to raise transport fares” .
Titus Marcus is a black market dealer at Abattoir, and he told our correspondent that a “gallon of fuel goes for 1,500 naira ,getting the product is very difficult for us, I can thus not sell it for less than this price”, he said .
Our correspondent who went round Jos observed that along Yakubu Gowon Way only three out of over 15 petrol stations around that axis sold petrol to motorists and other consumers, others said they did not have petrol.
