Stories that touch from fuel scarcity angle
Look at these boys, they will buy from the filling station and resell to cars just outside the filling station, they're the real power brokers in this hustle. (Photo credit: Google) |
Omo! This fuel scarcity has come with lots of stories that touch and I think I should share a few of them. It’s been on for far too long especially when you consider the fact that we were told it wasn’t like there was no fuel but some were contaminated, so how long would it take them to clean it up?
Let’s not
forget the fact that we know how to make life difficult for ourselves in
Nigeria, greedy people are already exploiting others and I doubt any fuel
attendant out there wants the fuel scarcity to end, it is what it is if you ask
them but they won’t win forever.
One fuel
attendant told me last week that if the scarcity continues for another one
week, he’d be able to pay his rent, buy a new phone and be liquid for at least
three months, you think he was exaggerating? You’d want to think twice when you
realize his station charges 1k on every jerrycan no matter the size.
It is crazy
enough that this scarcity is coming at a time heat is unbearable and the electricity
distribution companies across Lagos are working for our enemies full time, I
don’t know who we offended but we can’t continue suffering like this.
To personal
experiences during this period. I was on a queue at MRS on the express that
leads to 7up and I realized it was a standstill, Emmanuel (my pilot) went to
check to be sure we’re not on a long thing and he came back with the news that
they’re only selling to Kegs…
That’s not
the end of this particular gist; there’s heavy traffic on that axis and even if
we decide to leave, we’d still have to struggle to wriggle out. The traffic
wasn’t actually caused by the orderly long queue that was already approaching
Ogudu, but by black market boys who buy in kegs at the gas station and then
resell to cars at outrageous prices.
If that isn’t
madness, I don’t know what to call it. So these fuel attendants prefer to sell
to kegs because of what they charge them and then the boys will go to the filling
station gate to resell to cars, that particular night, I bought from these
miscreants/oil moguls at 400naira per liter.
The next
morning, as soon as I got to the office, Emmanuel went to hustle at Oando on
same express road and he came back with full tank and extra for gen, that
lasted me for four days, this also means the fuel they’re selling is badly
refined, not like we have much choices.
There’s a simple
scam going on as well at these filling stations. Y’all will be on a long queue
and you’d see filling station security folks trying to smuggle a particular car
in; when you revolt, they will tell you he or she is a manager from another of
their branch but if you watch closely, palms would be greased as the person is
driving off, I must not forget to mention that such people usually have about
5kegs in their trunks too.
Then to this
story Tobi told us in our Arsenal group, it happened in Ikorodu and I’m still
laughing as I’m typing this. A woman was at the filling station to hustle for
fuel and in the midst of the hassles, one young man became friends with her
under the guise that he knows everyone at the station…
The woman saw
the guy playing with all the attendants and even hailing some people around,
she trusted the guy with her jerrycan while she went to sit in the car outside
the filling station. When it was the turn of the woman’s keg to be filled, the guy
signaled her to come for payment because she was using POS.
The woman
realized she could actually get more value, so she decided to pour the fuel in
her car while her new friend goes to hustle another one she would take home, no
brainer right? The guy already earned her trust so how it happened, it remains
unclear but it ended with the woman’s iPhone 12 missing and the super star
hustler at large at least till the time Tobi was reporting it, sad.
Bants or
cruise, I wouldn’t be able to tell but I have heard of romantic relationships starting
off at filling stations, finding love in hopeless places, right? Well ladies
can be as soft as custard and it would be easy for a guy that hustles fuel for
you to have your number.
Speaking of
number, you know how much you have labored for fuel, if a guy asks for your
number so he can call you when he sees a station that is selling, won’t you
hurriedly give him the number? And what happens after then is not anyone’s
business abi?
Tell me about
your own fuel scarcity chronicles, how have you been coping? Do you have a fuel
buddie? Trust our ladies, they have a boyfriend for every purpose, at least Yinka
helped bailed one of our activation buses that was arrested by LASTMA idiots
recently by just one call… Baddest!
While telling
me about your fuel scarcity stories, please leave your name behind so I can
engage better, I’m actually begging. Thank you and I hope someone blesses you
with 25liters of PMS. Amen.
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