No
fewer than 35 filling stations have been sealed by the Owerri Zonal Operations
Office of the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, for flagrantly violating
government regulations.
According to Vanguard report yesterday, the Zonal Operations Controller, ZOC,
Ogbuefi Morrison Nwokedi, also disclosed that his office was continuing with
the sensitization of the citizenry on the safe use of liquefied petroleum gas,
LPG. “Over 35 filling stations have been sealed in the three senatorial zones
of Okigwe, Owerri and Orlu”, Nwokedi said.
The ZOC also explained that the
filling stations were found to have either under-dispensed the product, sold
above the government approved pump price or operated without valid licence.
“Some of the filling stations were sealed for failing to update their
operational licence.
Others were sealed for selling above government approved
pump price or shortchanging their customers by under-dispensing the product”,
Nwokedi said. Answering another question, the zonal DPR boss promised that his
office would continue to monitor the activities of owners of petroleum products
outlets, to ensure compliance.
On the sensitization of the citizenry on the use
of LPG, Ogbuefi Nwokedi said that his office had successfully carried out the
campaign in Enugu, Ebonyi, Anambra and Abia states. , stressing that the
workshops were part of the Department’s response to the recent spate of fire
incidents at LPG plants in the country.
“LPG is not evil as has been peddled in
some quarters and that it is in fact cheap, clean and safe to use, if people
follow specifications and guidelines”, Nwokedi said.
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