DPR: Wake up to your duties

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), as a Federal Government agency, is charged with the responsibilities for the supervision and the monitoring of all the operations and activities relating to the oil and gas sector in the country. It is also responsible for the setting of standards and guidelines for operations involving monitoring of oil […]

The Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), as a Federal Government agency, is charged with the responsibilities for the supervision and the monitoring of all the operations and activities relating to the oil and gas sector in the country. It is also responsible for the setting of standards and guidelines for operations involving monitoring of oil drilling sites, production platforms -flow stations, crude oil export terminals, refineries, storage depots pump stations, petroleum filling stations, petroleum product pipelines and other locations where petroleum and other related products are either stored or sold.
 Must the DPR officials be told when and how to carry out their mandates diligently without compromising standard at expense of the masses? Most filling stations are under dispensing and doing several irregularities and sharp practices, yet those whose responsibility is to ensure that customers get value for their money watch the ugly situation hopelessly. In some cases, they even play to the gallery. DPR should wake up to its responsibilities.
Muhammad D. Eibo Adanu. [email protected]