Vehicles block major roads, fuel sells for N400 in Ondo as long queues persist
By Temitope Adedeji, Akure
Fuel scarcity persisted in Ondo State on Thursday as few filling stations had the product to dispense.
Some of those who spoke with our correspondent said they had been on the queue waiting endlessly for over nine hours, with no hope of getting fuel.
The few dispensing stations, especially in Akure, the state capital were selling at between N350 and N400 to motorists.
When Western Post visited Shamrock, a filling station along Ilesha-Owo expressway, long queue of vehicles was observed, despite selling far above the approved pump price
Mr. Bayo Aladeruntan, a staff of the Federal University of Technology Akure (FUTA), described the situation as pathetic, dehumanizing and disheartening.
At another filling station visited by Western Post, A.A Rano along Oke Ijebu, Akure, vehicles were on three lanes from the left and another three by the right, with Okada riders also struggling to gain access into the filling station.
Many passengers were stranded by the roadside pleading for free rides to their destinations since limited commercial vehicles were seeing plying the roads.
Our correspondent also discovered that commuters were left to follow one way, as people desperately queuing for petrol, blocked a lane of the road along Ondo road, Arakale road and Alagbaka area of Akure.
