Cooking gas price hike: Minister fumes, directs DSS, Police to crack down on saboteurs

From Okwe Obi , Abuja
Prompted by the sharp hike in the price of cooking gas also called Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, has directed operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), Police, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and other paramilitary to decisively deal with those undermining the sector.
Ekpo, who spoke yesterday at a stakeholders meeting with stakeholders on the rising prices of LPG, specifically directed the phalanx of security team to apprehend hoarders, stop illegal storage diversion across the country.
According to him, the government would not sit back and allow market force...