The Federal Government has assured Nigerians that it has no plans to increase the price of Petrol from its current rate of N97 per litre.
The Federal government gave the assurance in a statement released by the Permanent Secretary, of the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Mr. Danladi Kifasi.
Mr. Kifasi in the statement said “We would like to appeal to oil marketers to refrain from hoarding of petroleum products and the general public from panic buying in anticipation of any increase in pump price.
“It is equally important to state that neither the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources nor any of its parastatal is under any instruction to activate a new pump price regime as being speculated.”
He awarned petroleum marketers to desist from creating any form of scarcity saying the Department of Petroleum Resources and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have been directed to deal with any petroleum marketer found culpable.
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