In a move aimed at curtailing the activities of black market operators and others benefiting from people’s misery, the Commandant General of Nigeria Security & Civil Defence Corps ( NSCDC) Alhaji Abdullahi Gana Muhammadu, has ordered a 24-hour surveillance of petrol stations by the Officers of the corps.
Gana Muhammadu, in a statement today, said that his officers would be assigned to petrol stations across the country in order to carry out the directive.
Gana who met with the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Mr. Ibe Kachikwu at NNPC tower Abuja, handed down the order as the widespread fuel scarcity in the country continues to bite hard.
This is even as the government has outlawed selling of petrol on roadsides and directed the NSCDC official to arrest and prosecute offenders.
Speaking to news men on the development, the Commandant General said that before the latest direct NSCDC had carried out 24-hour surveillance on oil terminals where crude oil is being loaded and on the rigs where drilling operations take place.
He said 2,800 officers have been deployed in Abuja metropolis to easy the operation of NNPC and also officers of the corps have also been deployed in the same vein in states like, Delta, Edo, Lagos, Ogun, Osun and Oyo state. [myad]
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