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Price Hike in Petrol Price after Makeni Gas Stations took to rotational selling

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson


In the last 72 hours until now, there is an alarming scarcity of gas mostly petrol in the municipality of Makeni and its environs.

The situation erupted after gas stations in the northern region city and its environs took to rotational selling of Petrol to the public, in-fact a good number of the gas stations have stopped selling.

Since Sunday evening when many gas stations took to rotational selling of the gas, their has been a deep chasing and hustling among motorbikes riders, drivers and other persons in the areas for the widely used commodity.

Notable gas stations including all National Petroleum-(NP) stations in Makeni city and its environs except for those in Magburaka town in Tonkolili District, have all stopped selling Petrol to the public with visible tapes now being crossed to barricade their gas station premises.

Some fuel attendants have told Journalists that, “they have took to rotational selling because they’ve ran out of supply and they are not sure of buying new stock soon.

Others say, “there is no available stock to purchase from their supplies.”

The present scarcity of fuel especially Petrol in the municipality and its environs has been described by some residents of the city as “an artificial scarcity created by gas station owners in a bid to sell the commodity to black marketers-(Jebu-Sellers) who now sells a litter of petrol at exorbitant prices ranging from Le 18,000 to Le 20,000 depending on the areas they are selling from.”

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