Fuel adulteration is an illegal introduction of any foreign substance into any product leading to the non-compliance with its standard specification. Fuel adulteration is rampant in most developing countries of the world.
There has been an ongoing wave of adulterated fuel being imported into the country and sold to consumers. This led to the members of house of representatives to call for an immediate suspension of the four firms that were allegedly involved in the importation of bad fuel into the country. Fuel adultration is rampant in automotive fuels segments and cause deterioration in the quality of fuel.
The fuel subsidy paved way for adultrated fuel as many people unknowingly bought and used bad fuel.
Fuel adulteration is a big challenge for regulators and industries. The fuel scarcity that had befall the nation in recent years has caused a lot of pains, anguish, and dislocation of economic activities. Despite the efforts of OPR, the rise of fuel adulteration is still prevalent. The crisis situation worsened when one of the filling stations had fuel to sell and the black market rate will increase from N250- N400 depending on the level of adulteration with kerosene.
Despite all the efforts of the ministry and parastatals the NNPC and PPMC has almost found it impossible to eliminate the surge of fuel adulteration. Consequences of fuel adulteration include.
Adulterated fuel can affect the performance of Vehicle engine, this can lead to a breakdown of vehicles systems.
Health Problems
It can cause health problems in the form of direct emissions of harmful pollutants that affects the quality of air and life. It can even lead to death, several cases of fire outbreak and burns at home is linked to the use adultrated products.
Economic losses
The rise of fuel adulteration leads to economic losses. This also one of the major problem associated with fuel adulteration. It also effect social economic activities with transport fare and price of goods and commodities sky rocketing.
SOURCE: OperaNews
