The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) will on Monday begin a clampdown on petrol dealers hoarding or diverting products in Ekiti State. The NDCDC, Ekiti Command, said it will not allow those he described as unscrupulous dealers to create artificial scarcity in the state over nonexistent anticipation that the official pump price may increase. Governor Kayode Fayemi on Friday issued a similar threat against some petrol dealers found to be hoarding fuel and compelled motorists to engage in panic buying since Friday. The development had also caused resurface of long queues in filling stations across the state and hike in the pump price in some stations to as high as N160 per liter. Speaking with journalists in Ado Ekiti on Sunday, the command’s Commandant, Mr. Solomon Iyamu, said he had instructed anti-vandal operatives to commence random checks on petrol stations and arrest those hoarding […]