Fuel shortage worsens in Dutse
From ISA‘IMAILA MUHD. Dutse

THE unholy fuel crises as a result of the increase of pump prices across the country with more worsening cases in northern part of Nigeria, has assumed a terrible dimension in Dutse, the capital of Jigawa state, Daily Triumph findings has revealed.
Investigation by Daily Triumph in Dutse indicates that the estimation is forcing committee’s to pay exorbitant prices per litre of petrol or face the reality of buying in the black marketat a much more prohibitive prices.
Daily Triumph in Dutse reliably gathered that a litre of petrol that was hitherto sold at between N65 and N75 per litre went astronomically up to between N120 and N140 as at the time of filing in this report.
Alhaji Abdu Manager and Sons Petrol Station in Dutse by-pass , for example a commuter who simply identified himself as Alhaji Sani told our correspondent that the new pump prices as at now is N140 a litre of petrol.
And this is irrespective of that fact that of all the five filling stations in Dutse, only one can be seen dispensing to produce despite complaints by one of its attendants that they get the product only at night and not often.
It would be recalled that, the federal government recently explained that although the downstream sector of the petroleum industry has been regulated, that consumption and supply as well as the pricing pattern of petrol is subject to private individuals regulations whereas consumers are to identify other mode of purchases as much as they determine within the purview of the fuel station that sold according to their chose prices.
Consequent upon the above premise, commuters in Jigawa state have not been indifferent as their consumption pattern is determined by the manner a particular fuel station sells a litre of petrol to them.
The situation has worsened the lives of the ordinary citizens of the state especially residents of Kazaure were the products has shot up well beyond the commuter, thereby making life unbearable for motorists and other acceess of the product.
Investigation carried out in the area revealed that the product sold at N200 per litre at the only petrol station is sold between N220 to N240 at the black market, while the only commercial means of transportation is the Achaba who charge passengers at cut- throat rates.
The situation has forced many civil servants and business men alike to stay off from coming to office or market places respectively while some forced to abandon their cars and resort to using commercialbuses and the Achaba motorcycles while those that can not afford, resort to trekking.