Livio Bahara, mayor of Wau town in South Sudan’s Western Bahr al Ghazal State, has ordered all traders to set the price of fuel at 13 SSP per litre from 16.
The decision came after protracted meetings with the owners of oil stations in the town in which they agreed to reduce the price of litres of fuel to 13 South Sudanese pounds.
“Yes, the issue of fuel price has been resolved, so we agreed to reduce the price of one litres of fuel to 13 SSP,” the mayor told Radio Tamazuj Wednesday.
He pointed out that the petrol stations are now open. He stressed that local citizens couldn’t afford the previous price of fuel fixed by the traders.
Radio Tamazuj earlier reported that traders decided to shut down all fuel stations in Wau in protest of a government decision requiring them to sell at 13 SSP per litre.
Officials said there was no clear reason to increase the prices since the government provides fuel subsidies to import the commodity.
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