PMS: NSCDC arrests 3 ‘black marketers’, impounds 4 vehicles in Niger

“The corps will clampdown on vandals and other economic saboteurs,” he said.

Ibrahim Usman, one of the suspects said that he ventured into the business because he has no job.

Usman who has two wives and 13 children,  said that they normally  tip the fuel pump attendants at NNPC to get the PMS.

“We give them N2, 000 to N3,000 to sell fuel to us.

“I cannot steal to take care of my family, so I have to go into buying and selling of fuel,” he said.

It would that the President, Bola  Tinubu on Monday announced the end  of fuel subsidy, making the NNPC and other filling stations to increase pump prices to N537 and N600 per litre across the country.