{"id":11702,"date":"2026-03-11T03:59:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=11702"},"modified":"2026-03-11T03:59:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T03:59:01","slug":"fuel-price-hike-motorists-park-vehicles-resort-to-trekking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2026\/03\/11\/fuel-price-hike-motorists-park-vehicles-resort-to-trekking\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel Price  Hike: Motorists Park Vehicles, resort to trekking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> By Our Correspondent <\/p>\n<p>Following the current increase in Petroleum pump price in the country,Motorists and other  commuters  in  Owerri Imo State Capital parked their vehicles and resorted to trekking.<\/p>\n<p>This development gave rise to most motorists and other commuters  especially  civil  servants resort to trekking and walking to their places of businesses and work.<\/p>\n<p>However, as at tuesday, the pump price of fuel which  used to be \u20a6890, and \u20a6900 in some petrol stations now sale at \u20a61,350 per litre while the pump price of diesel  sales far more than the PMS price <\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the sudden hike in fuel prices  commuters and some petrol station operators claim that, &#8221; it  is not our fault but the government should explain the situation &#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,  the increament has given rise to the upward  adjustment of prices of goods and services particularly of food items.<\/p>\n<p>Most people spoken to however  called on the federal government to consider the economic plight on the people quickly intervene to alleviate the sufferings of the people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent Following the current increase in Petroleum pump price in the country,Motorists and other commuters in Owerri Imo State Capital parked their vehicles and resorted to trekking. This development gave rise to most motorists and other commuters especially civil servants resort to trekking and walking to their places of businesses and work. However, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2249,3874,850],"class_list":["post-11702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oil-gas","tag-alleviate","tag-resort","tag-trekking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11703,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11702\/revisions\/11703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}