Fuel price nose-dives in Enugu

The price of petrol in Enugu State continued to drop as fuel crisis eased within the metropolis.
Before now, petrol sold for as high as N300 in Enugu State.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that two out every three filling stations in Enugu presently have fuel as the price of the commodity continue to drop to N180 and N200 in the last three days.
A correspondent of NAN, who went round the metropolis on Saturday, reports that most members of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria had been supplied.
It was, however, observed that the some of the marketers preferred selling in the evening hours.
However, both the NNPC and ConOil were selling between N86 and N86.50 respectively but had queues.
The Manager of Emmapet Filling Station, Agbani Road, Emeka Ocha, said the increase in supply had affected prices by pushing the prices down.
Ocha said: “We must thank the Federal Government for this relief.
“We are now selling at N180 against about N240 we sold three weeks ago and we hope it will drop drastically when we get our next stock from the government depot in Lagos.”
The Zonal Operational Controller of the Department of Petroleum Resources, Peter Igeh, said that the department had received copies of schedule of filling stations in Enugu already allotted truck (s) of fuel in government-owned depot.
Igeh said: “When we must have finished monitoring in Nsukka and its environs, we would storm Enugu to clamp down on stations that received fuel from government depot, who either refused to sell at approved price or hoard the product.”
NAN.