{"id":35530,"date":"2022-11-26T02:09:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T02:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-fuel-crisis-service-station-closed-for-hoarding-fuel"},"modified":"2022-11-26T02:32:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T02:32:14","slug":"malawi-fuel-crisis-service-station-closed-for-hoarding-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-fuel-crisis-service-station-closed-for-hoarding-fuel","title":{"rendered":"Malawi fuel crisis: Service station closed for hoarding fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. <\/strong><\/span>The Malawi Energy Regulatory Authoriy (MERA) has shut down Best Oil Fuel Service Station in Lilongwe for hoarding thousands litres of fuel amid the fuel crisis that has hit the country. MERA announced yesterday that the filling station has been closed for 21 days following complaints from consumers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur Investigations established that Best Oil Fuel Service was hoarding 2,050 litres of petrol and personnel on site admitted to the malpractise. The stations was advised to sell the 2,050 litres to customers immediately,\u201d MERA said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe service station\u2019s conduct undermined equitable distribution and access to fuel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the regulatory authority, opening of the service station will be subject to satisfactory implementation of meausres taken to avoid reoccurrence of the malpractice.<\/p>\n<p>For months, Malawi has been facing a fuel crisis with motorists forced to queue for hours and sometimes leave their vehicles at filling stations for days in order to access fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The fuel shortage is due to lack of forex in the country and the government said last week that it was expected to secure forex and the situation will normalise by the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\">Malawi<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Malawi. The Malawi Energy Regulatory Authoriy (MERA) has shut down Best Oil Fuel Service Station in Lilongwe for hoarding thousands litres of fuel amid the fuel crisis that has hit the country. MERA announced yesterday that the filling station has been closed for 21 days following complaints from consumers. \u201cOur Investigations established that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":35529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[233,371,307,308,234,1098],"class_list":["post-35530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-malawi","tag-economy","tag-fuel","tag-malawi","tag-malawi-energy-regulatory-authority-mera"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Malawi fuel crisis: Service station closed for hoarding fuel - Malawi<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Malawi Energy Regulatory Authoriy (MERA) has shut down Best Oil Fuel Service Station in Lilongwe for hoarding thousa ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-fuel-crisis-service-station-closed-for-hoarding-fuel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Malawi fuel crisis: Service station closed for hoarding fuel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Malawi Energy Regulatory Authoriy (MERA) has shut down Best Oil Fuel Service Station in Lilongwe for hoarding thousa ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-fuel-crisis-service-station-closed-for-hoarding-fuel\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Malawi\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-11-26T02:09:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-11-26T02:32:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1669416025.04.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-fuel-crisis-service-station-closed-for-hoarding-fuel#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-fuel-crisis-service-station-closed-for-hoarding-fuel\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Malawi fuel crisis: Service station closed for hoarding fuel\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-11-26T02:09:46+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-11-26T02:32:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-fuel-crisis-service-station-closed-for-hoarding-fuel\"},\"wordCount\":209,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-fuel-crisis-service-station-closed-for-hoarding-fuel#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/malawi\/sites\/36\/2022\/11\/postQueueImg_1669416025.04.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Malawi\",\"economy\",\"Fuel\",\"Malawi\",\"Malawi Energy Regulatory Authority (MERA)\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-fuel-crisis-service-station-closed-for-hoarding-fuel#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-fuel-crisis-service-station-closed-for-hoarding-fuel\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/malawi\/all-news\/malawi-fuel-crisis-service-station-closed-for-hoarding-fuel\",\"name\":\"Malawi fuel crisis: Service station closed for hoarding fuel - 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