About 13 filling stations have been sealed off by the Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, Eket Field Office, in Akwa Ibom State for acts of illegality and non-renewal of licenses.

The DPR Operations Controller in the state, Mr Tamunoiminabo Kingsley-Sundaye, told News Agency of Nigeria, NAN on Wednesday in Uyo that the stations were shut during a routine surveillance on petrol stations.
Kingsley-Sundaye said the filling stations were sealed in Uyo, Essien Udim, Ikot Ekpene, Abak, Etim, Ika Local Government Areas of the state.

He explained that out of the 13 stations sealed, seven were sealed for non-approval to build or operate the stations while six did not renew their licenses.

“Seven of them do not have approval to build filling stations.

“The team of DPR on routine surveillance went out to some areas in Akwa Ibom to ensure compliance in terms of standard, safety engineering standard and operating standard,” he said.

The operations controller said that the department had given prior warning to defaulting stations but they were recalcitrant and refused to comply with guidelines and standard of operations.

“There are some people who are adamant and they feel the system is weak or the government is weak to make them to obey the law. We will continue to do what is right,” Kingsley-Sundaye assured.

He said that the department collaborated with the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to arrest defaulters of oil and gas in the state in October.
He noted that after the arrest, a good number of the defaulters came back to do the right thing while two petroleum marketers, who were arrested, refused to do the right thing.

Kingsley-Sundaye added that those petroleum marketers who built filling stations without approved licenses would be sanctioned and prosecuted in the court of law.

“The department will approach the court of law to prosecute the defaulters in the state.

“If your license expires, the law states, you don’t have the authority to continue doing such business.

“When you continue to operate illegally, it is a criminal matter but not a civil matter and the law enforcement agency will assist us to do what is right.

“It is cheaper for you to obey the law than to break it,” the operation controller said.

He advised some of the petroleum marketers to approach DPR if they wanted to build filling stations or site oil and gas facilities in the state.

Kingsley-Sundaye said that the department would continue to give the petroleum marketers guidelines, directives and advised them to always follow them to do the right in their operations.

He disclosed that the department was compiling a list of all illegal filling stations in the state, stressing that DPR would partner State Government to demolish them.

Source : http://www.nseinfo.com.ng/2019/11/13-illegal-fuel-stations-sealed-in-akwa.html

They will be opened before friday

Alphafeezay:
They will be opened before friday

Why do you sound so sure?

How can u have 10shirts�and eight of them are "ADIEU PAPA"

Are u sure your hands are clean?��‍♂
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Na naija way na

laslas they will open them by tomorrow, after finding out they belonged to politicians.

Elibrainz:

Why do you sound so sure?

this is nigeria

December debt
Go and settle oga at the top

I pity the owners.

But Nigerians should always learn to do the right thing.

Meanwhile, Watch shocking untold story of Mark Angel and his little prodigies below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTuDW2QoKCI

Why not seal up all the Filling stations in the country, because 70% of the filling stations and gas outlets are illegal?

Waste of time.
Bad planning, incompatibility of facilities, inferior equipments, poor emergency aid and rest.
Everything has already gone awry in this black hole.
The only solution is to purge the whole black hole of everything on sight and out of sight; and new breeds of organisms start afresh.
Crap.

Everytime dey seal stations and stories ends,I just wonder why can't dey west use all dis excuses and recolonize us for just 10 years

Alphafeezay:
They will be opened before friday

naija way

I am of the opinion that Government and its agencies should be lenient with these individuals that use their personal hard earned money to establish these outfits which are direct employers of labour. These people are doing what government cannot do for the masses by floating these establishments which take so many youths out of the streets. Right now, I'm imagining the number of youths who were serving as dispenser attendants that are now back to the streets.

wiseone28:
That's the only industries and teaching work in Akwa ibom..

Stupid people

u are pathetic. Shame on u.

AMI3:
u are pathetic. Shame on u.

Don't rush to quote someone when u don't know anything

Alphafeezay:
They will be opened before friday

Pady mi u sabi naija wella

Na so dem de do eyes services just to gada dem sefs for media

Right there they will take bribe and business continue

wiseone28:
Don't rush to quote someone when u don't know anything

Then what do mean by that statement. if u call the people of Akwa Ibom stupid are u not insulting the entire sensibility of the entire Akwa Ibomites?

please come to oron ooo..

AMI3:
Then what do mean by that statement. if u call the people of Akwa Ibom stupid are u not insulting the entire sensibility of the entire Akwa Ibomites?

I'm calling our bad leaders not those whose hands are white

wiseone28:
I'm calling our bad leaders not those whose hands are white

OKAY. I SURRENDER

To be unsealed siibest

visijo:
How can u have 10shirts�and eight of them are "ADIEU PAPA"

Are u sure your hands are clean?��‍♂
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Haha
Burial peoples

They refused to pay bribe

If these ones did their job well, nnpc won’t be eating our cash anyhow

wentin we no go hear for Naija