Obviously in response to the lingering fuel crisis and the loud complaints by suffering consumers, the management of the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, may have decided that enough was enough. And to demonstrate its feeling in this regard, it has warned all petroleum products marketers that it would not hesitate to commensurately sanction those who indulge in varying despicable acts in the procurement and distribution of petroleum products. The Zonal DPR Operations Controller, Ogbuefi Morrison Nwokedi, read the riot act at a one-day sensitization seminar organised by DPR for members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, and other stakeholders in Owerri. “Henceforth, the brazen violation of sealed fuel stations by marketers, would attract a penalty of N1 million, in addition to closure for a period of six months. Subsequent violation would attract seizure of operation license”, Nwokedi said. While warning that the retail […]