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Written by Abdul Samba Brima
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Thursday, 18 February 2010 |
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Oil marketers in Sierra Leone have increased the price of fuel by seven hundred Leones.
A gallon of petrol, kerosene, and diesel is now being sold at fifteen thousand five hundred Leones instead of fourteen thousand eight hundred Leones. Bankole Richards, Corporate Affairs Manager of the National Petroleum (NP) told journalists that the change in the price of petroleum products in the country took effect from Tuesday Sixteenth February. He said the increase was owing to what he described as the combined effects of both local exchange rate and international market prices. Mr. Richards said government had been giving subsides for fuel, but that had been reduced. He said the increase in price would return to normalcy depending on the world market prices and local exchange rates.
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