Police officers will be deployed to inspect fuel stations to check whether the claims made by certain stations to be not having fuel are true, given that there is no accuracy to the notion that the stations have run out of fuel, said State Minister Dilum Amunugama, speaking to reporters in Colombo today (23).
These inspections will be looking into whether the claim that there is no fuel in the stations is true or is there any pretense involved in the hope of a fuel price surge by hiding stocks, Amunugama noted.
Revealing that there were queues near the fuel stations even yesterday and all of them were sent back fully loaded, the State Minister suggested that there is no fuel shortage in the country.
Nevertheless, Amunugama went on emphasising that there is no alternative but to import the required volumes of fuel and that the government has a responsibility to maintain the required fuel supply in the country.
MIAP
