Nigeria: DPR Begins Clampdown On Illegal Fuel Vendors

10 December 2012

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), has begun a nationwide clampdown on illegal fuel vendors otherwise known as black marketers.

While addressing journalists in Abuja at the weekend, the Head, Downstream Operations, DPR Zonal office, Abuja, Mr. Yerima Kolomi, said the decision to rid the streets of the illegal vendors was informed by the fact that their activities constitute an embarrassment to the regulators, operators and the federal government even as he added that it takes only a licenced person to deal on petroleum products.

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