YOLA — Marketers in the downstream petroleum operating in Adamawa and Taraba states have been cautions to ensure regulatory compliance for safety is being adhered to in filling stations and Gas plants.
Sadiq Danjuma Ibraheem, the Controller Department of Petroleum Resources Yola field office in charge of Adamawa and Taraba states gave the charge during an interactive session with the leadership of IPMAN, LPG, NARTO, and representatives of other unions of the sector held at the office of the DPR in Yola.
“One of the safety measures required for the petrol filling stations to put in place prior to starting their operations in the area of burying their tanks, they should ensure that the exact depth as prescribed by DPR is attained, and must make sure that did not build close to residential houses.
“The area of concern is an influx of vehicles by customers buying gas because some of the vehicles are not carrying spark arrestors”, he said.
Danjuma stated that LPG and cooking gas can cause disaster if not handled with care due to its rate of expansion, explained that one liter of gaseous LPG is equal to 270 liters of in its liquid form.
He said within the last two weeks 6 LGP plants applied for licenses and commends IPMAN leadership for the role they played in ensuring that their members complied with all laid down statutory regulations.
In their separate remarks, IPMAN chairman for Adamawa and Taraba states Alh. Dahiru Buba, Adamawa State Chairman of NARTO, Alh. Auwal Ibrahim, Chairman Association of LPG Plant Yola, Ibrahim Jada, and other speakers commended the Controller DPR Yola for field office for purposeful leadership.
They however complained of multiple taxes by various arms of government and called for a review of such taxes.
In an interview with newsmen, Danjuma revealed that ten petrol filling stations were sealed in 2020 for flouting procedure guides ranging from selling petrol above official pump price, under measurement tempering with their pumps to shortchange unsuspecting customers and were penalized accordingly.
“In 2020 it has been a tough year in terms of surveillance and inspection in particularly in the months of May, June, and July where there was an increase and decrease in the pump price of petrol based on the template issued by the PPRA.
“We had challenges when there was a decrease of the price of petrol as announced by PPRA, it took us time to be able to make the marketers bring their price down”, he said.
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