The fuel scarcity hitting the country for about three weeks now has worsened in Kaduna metropolis with ever lengthening queues of motor vehicles winding into filling stations, deepening the frustration of fuel buyers about any end in sight to the scarcity.
The ‘new normal’ now in the metropolis is neither any shortening queues of motor vehicles nor the expectation that those queues would shorten, but the ever increasing length of the queues kept at the vicinity of filling stations, mostly at the slightest rumours of petrol tankers heading into town.
Daylight Reporters ovserve that the queues of motor vehicles winding into filling stations are mostly many times more than the fuel supplied, which is mostly just enough for a very little percentage of the vehicles.
Consequently, even after a filling exhausted a supply, the ever lengthening queues create a frustrating impression that no fuel has been sold at all for about a week.
The attendant effect of this situation has been the brisk business made by many of the filling stations which, allegedly, either divert supplies to other obscure filling stations and sell the product to them at exorbitant price or sell the product to black-marketers between midnight and early morning, condemning lawful buyers to perpetual anguish.
With ever skyrocketing prices of the commodity, Daylight Reporters has observed that no filling station maintains a fixed pump price, let alone any DPR-approved pump price, a situation that has created a cutthroat price-hiking spree that compounds the misery of lawful fuel buyers.
Queuing motorists told Daylight Reporters nothing would console them about any end in sight to the fuel scarcity but decreasing queues.
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