The Department of Weights and Measures closed four petrol stations in Ibadan for under-dispensing fuel per litre to customers.
Mr Ibrahim Isah, Deputy Director, Legal Metrology in the agency, claimed during surveillance on Tuesday that most filling stations visited are undercharging customers.
“We are here to examine measures wherever commerce is taking on. We must monitor the correctness of that equipment at filling stations, industries, and marketplaces where they sell in modules, or in the cement sector anywhere we check.
“When we do the verification they deposit some token into the federal account by remittal. “We came to Ibadan specifically for petrol stations and some industries,” he explained.
Isah noted that visiting outlets of independent and major marketers in Ibadan, he was surprised that almost all, apart from Bovas, are under dispensing.
“Most of them are under dispensing by one litre. It means if you buy 20 litres they are giving you 19 litres and they will indicate that they are selling N250 per litre which is not so, some are even selling at N280 per litre,” he said.
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He stated that these offenders have been told to pay the shortfall into the government remittal which is N5000 per nozzle.
”Most of them have refused to pay claiming our officials do not have the jurisdiction to check their pumps because they are dubious marketers.
“We now sealed most of the stations and it will continue up to Friday. These are the stations sealed and the errors in their pumps in litres: NIPCO Poly Road, 21.26; NIPCO Akobo, 21.57; Oduwoye, 21.57; and LEKLAW, 20.83, 20.74,” Isah said.
He said that in the ideal situation the offenders are taken to the Federal High Court in Ibadan where the offence happened for the law to take effect.
Isah said a meeting would be set up to properly educate the stakeholders concerned and resolve some issues concerning the jurisdiction of the agency.
“The present administration wants justices and frowns at cheating Nigerians of their hard-earned money,” he said.
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