Customers queuing to buy petrol on Wednesday at a filling station in Abuja were left distraught after learning that the fluid the pumps at the station were dispensing into their vehicles was not fuel.at Wuse Zone 5, Abuja, where motorists rushed to buy fuel just as the government announced a reversal of its plan to stop paying fuel subsidy this year.
A civil servant who gave his name as Chidi told PREMIUM TIMES, “If you check my vehicle, my fuel is low and I need to refill, I went for afternoon mass and on my way back to my office, I noticed that these people are selling fuel so I just entered to buy fuel but we met another problem, what they have been dispensing here is not fuel but water.”
“Honestly, it is so barbaric. They are now selling water for us. I don’t even know who to blame, whether the filling station, manager or the people that they even buy the fuel from,” he said. “It’s terrible, honestly, I am not happy because right now it is going to be more harmful to my vehicle than the amount I spent buying the fuel.
“We don’t know anything about this, we have never experienced something like this, so it is not time to say if this happened or not. We are waiting for the engineers and the supplier of the fuel, to come and talk about what happened. Because for us, we have never experienced something like this here.”