The scarcity of fuel as a result of hoarding by some owners of filing stations has resulted into fire incident at a shopping complex in Saki, Oke-Ogun area of Oyo State.
The fire which engulfed Arolu Shopping Complex at Old-Kara Market, Sanngo, Saki occured in the afternoon today.
Recall that few weeks ago, Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria IPMAN and PTD had subjected the Saki community into artificial fuel scarcity which affected a lot of motorists and the entire people of the community.
“Thus, the scarcity has given the entrepreneurs an opportunity to engage in black market and it led to hoarding of fuel which later resulted to this unfortunate incident.
It was learnt that an opportunist, a woman who took the advantage of artificial scarcity embarked on hoarding of PMS, Diesel and engine oil and stored together in the same room for the purpose of resell on black market rate.
It was gathered that the woman could not sell the remaining PMS due to the availability of fuel in almost all the filling stations in Saki.