GOVT LOSING $81M IN ILLEGAL FUEL

The Vitality Laws Board -ERB- says govt is losing eighty one million Bucks per year in via rampant unlawful fuel dumping or adulteration.
Vitality Laws Board Government Director Langiwe Lungu says right here’s primarily based fully mostly on the findings via the ongoing fuel marking programme that started in February this year.
Ms Lungu says the ERB will now embark on enforcement motion as a subject of urgency particularly on the north-south transit corridor between Livingstone and the Copperbelt Province.
She provides that the outcomes of baseline sampling and testing of petroleum supply chain grasp moreover printed that the fuel marker has penetrated the market right via the country.
Ms Lungu has since warned these conducting unlawful actions within the petroleum sub sector that the ERB will work with the Zambia Revenue Authority (ZRA), Zambia Environmental Management Agency, Zambia police and the Drug Enforcement Price.
She says right here’s to make advantageous the usual of fuel in Zambia is assured and that maximum income is realised from fuel sales.
Ms Lungu used to be speaking this morning at a Media briefing held at ERB locations of work in Lusaka.