The fuel scarcity in Kano metropolis is getting worse daily as Independent Petroleum Marketers jack up prize to dispense at N1,030 per litre of petrol.
Observation along Maiduguri, Zaria, BUK, Murtala Mohammed and other major roads show total close down of filing stations.
Few stations dispensing the products sold at between N980 and N1,030 per litre with suffocating queues, populated by commercial vehicles and tricycles. The growing concern has started taken toes on social economic and corporate services in the ancient city.
For instance, the situation has eased the high volume of vehicular moment on major high ways as many owners already abandoned their cars while several spending nights at fueling stations.
The worsening situation is forcing students and workers to trek as some spending hours waiting endlessly for commercial vehicles.
A motorist Musa Abubakar lamented the agony brought about by the fuel scarcity. He said he had spent 6 hours on queue with no hope on getting the product.
” The situation is getting worse by the day. We don’t know where we are going in this country. Apart from wasting productive hours in long queue, the people are selling for N1, 03 per litre. This is painful in a country that product fuel”. Abubakar said.
The reaction of Hadi Isiyaku was not different on the situation of fuel scarcity which he claimed is affecting his business. He said before the sudden increase, he spends N3, 200 on four litre on petrol. With the increase, Isiyaku lamented how he struggled to purchase same quantity of fuel for N5, 000.
” I don’t understand the situation in this country for us buying fuel as high as N1, 000 per litre. Government should please do something urgently. Businesses are dying, survival is being coming difficult for poor man. We beg them to help us out”. Isiyaku lamented.
Although, efforts to reach out to leadership of Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) in Kano was not successful. But a stakeholder in the industry who did not want his name on print attributed the current situation to speculation on prize regime.