Oyo State Government has called on the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) to monitor petroleum stations and sanction marketers found hoarding the product in the state.

The call was made by the State Commissioner for Public Works and Transport, Prof. Daud Kehinde Sangodoyin while featuring on a radio program on Fresh FM 105.9 Ibadan.

In the statement signed by Wasiu Olatubosun (Ph.D), Hon. Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism and was made available to CEOAFRICA, Sangodoyin revealed that the scarcity of fuel that started on Sunday was artificial, as there was no reason for most of the marketers not to sell to the people.

He added that most fuel stations in Ibadan were not selling fuel to motorists while those selling experienced long queues which also contributed to traffic gridlock in some parts of the metropolis.

“As government, we are doing all we can to make life easy for the people of Oyo State and this is reflected in the number of infrastructural projects around the State, for some people to be creating artificial scarcity of fuel for pecuniary reasons if wrong and inhuman.

“The Department of Petroleum Resources should as a matter of urgency swing into action and arrest the situation, they have the work of monitoring cut out for them and this is the moment to bring those marketers sabotaging government by hoarding products to book,” Sangodoyin stated.