A member of House of Representatives, representing Jere constituency, Ahmed Satomi, has contracted 15 filling stations to sell fuel to commercial tricyclists and motorists at N430 per litre.
It was gathered that marketers are currently selling fuel between N635 and N655 per litre in the Borno State capital, Maiduguri.
The intervention, according to him, was to complement the grain distribution by the state to cushion the effects of subsidy removal.
He said, “Fifteen filling stations were contracted to sell 37,500 litres of petrol at N430 per litre, and we would augment the balance of the market prices,”
Satomi, who was represented by the Chairman of petroleum palliative committee, Nur Lawan, observed that many tricycle riders and transporters were pushed out of their businesses, hence the need to support them.
“The economic situation has forced many of them out of business, so they can no longer feed their families,” he added.
The coordinator of the Satomi Petroleum Palliative Intervention, Muhammed Alhaji Muhammad, said the lawmaker’s intervention was the first phase, and “the remaining phases would come in earnest”.
