Nigeria: SON, DPR at War Over Regulation of Petroleum Products

The regular friction among government agencies that have functional overlaps played up last weekend when Standard Organization of Nigeria (SON) and Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) engaged in altercations over the responsibility of regulating players in the fuel market.

Whereas SON is reportedly pointing at alleged functional lapses at DPR to justify its intervention in detecting adulterated fuel in the market and mounting checks on marketers, DPR has dismissed the alleged widespread adulteration of products as untrue.

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