The Yoruba have a proverb, “Money is a beard that cannot be easily uprooted by anyone!” (Irunmu ni owo ti ko se faatu fun enikeni!). The import is that money is not easy to come by, and so nobody should be cheated out of their money. In this regard, it is quite disgusting for some petrol attendants to be outsmarting people who are struggling to buy fuel at high cost in petrol stations across the country. Filling stations under-dispense fuel.
In the first instance, they would instruct people to focus on the reading meter for the delivery of the full content of their products, and motorists are not able to assess the liquid contents being injected into the tanks of their vehicles.
Ideally, the right figure of the litres of the fuel that is purchased is supposed to be reflected on the meter screen, but the contents in the tanks are often not commensurate with the amount of money paid for the products.
To verify, I recently brought a 10-litre keg from the car and paid…