The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) in Katsina state said there will be strict monitoring to ensure total compliance to the federal government’s directives of ensuring no petroleum products are supplied within the 20km radius at border communities.
Speaking during another round of inspection to Jibia LGA, DPR Operation Controller for Katsina field office, Mohammed Aminu Sani, said the monitoring shall be right from depots were such commodities are lifted.
According to him, in Jibia alone there are over 50 stations saying that ” the department is closely watching their operation to ensure that compliance is adhered to.”
“In Jibia border community here, for instance, there are no fewer than fifty fuel stations and the DPR has stopped fuel supply to these fuel stations since the federal government gave the directive that there should not be fuel sales through fuel stations that are within twenty kilometres distance from our borders,” he said.
He noted that “other border communities are not left out in this monitoring exercise especially with this coming festivities saying that anyone found doing otherwise will surely be dealt with accordingly.”
