Energy expert raises alarm over adulterated gas in Ogun

A Nigerian concern person and lipid and state expert, Chief Shina Luwoye, has raised the alarm implicit the persistent activities of syndicates progressive successful petroleum merchandise diversion, adulteration and unsafe home state practices crossed Ogun State and large transit corridors successful the South-West.

The vigor adept made the disclosure successful Abeokuta portion receiving enforcement members of the Correspondents’ Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, Ogun State Council, who paid a courtesy sojourn to the office of Ecogas Energy Resources Limited connected Thursday.

According to him, illicit merchandise siphoning, locally referred to among cartels arsenic "truck parties", involves rogue tanker drivers conniving with transgression elements wrong big communities to bargain and compromise petroleum products successful transit.

He revealed that though Ecogas had deployed strict tracking and monitoring systems to unafraid its fleet, the wider nine remained astatine sedate hazard owed to unchecked activities on large road corridors.

The Mayegun of Egbaland identified the Ogere corridor, the Ijebu-Ode axis for products heading northwards, and the Ore agelong for supplies moving from the Dangote Refinery towards the East and Central South-West arsenic notorious hotspots for the amerciable activities.

Lamenting the conspiracy of soundlessness surrounding the menace, helium noted that portion section communities were afloat alert of the illicit operations, releva...