The scarcity of premium motor spirit (PMS) known as petrol may worsen following a claim by the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTD) that security agents are destroying products that they lifted from refineries.
Dyepkazah ShibayanThe scarcity of premium motor spirit , also known as petrol, may worsen following a claim by tanker drivers that security agents destroyed products they had lifted from refineries.
Speaking to journalists at the news conference, Osesua said the military on Tuesday night destroyed two trucks conveying high pour fuel oil popularly known as black oil.He said the trucks had lifted the black oil from a modular refinery — Walter Smith Refinery and Petrochemical Ibigwe — in Imo state.
“The trucks laden with 40,000 litres of black oil were on their way to Bob & Sea Depot Koko Delta state,” he said while showing reporters receipts and pictures of the burnt trucks.“The drivers presented way bills, NUPENG receipts, and quality control documents but the military men still insisted that they carried crude oil. They drove the two trucks away and burnt them between Ahoada and Elele in Rivers state, on Tuesday night.
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