The federal authorities has pledged to accentuate efforts to advertise Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) as a less expensive various gasoline for transportation, with a renewed concentrate on accelerating the rollout of 1 million CNG-powered autos throughout the nation.
To this finish, the Minister of State Petroleum Resources (Gas), Ekperikpe Ekpo, has tasked the management of the Presidential Initiative on Compressed Natural Gas and Electric Vehicles (Pi-CNG & EV) and the Decade of Gas Secretariat to concentrate on crucial interventions.
In a press release in Abuja, the minister urged the Pi-CNG & EV workplace and the secretariat to step up investments, develop CNG infrastructure and strengthen programmes to drive nationwide adoption.
Ekpo gave the directive in Abuja whereas receiving progress updates from the 2 our bodies, stressing the necessity to translate the federal authorities’s auto CNG coverage into tangible advantages for Nigerians within the kind of cheaper transport fares.
He stated the drive had turn out to be crucial following the elimination of petrol subsidy and the necessity to present Nigerians with a extra inexpensive and environmentally pleasant various for transportation, in step with the aspirations of President Bola Tinubu.
In his remarks, the Executive Chairman/CEO of Pi-CNG & EV, Mr. Ismaeel Ahmed, stated the initiative would step up investments and programmes to develop CNG infrastructure and enhance car conversions nationwide and result in cheaper transport fares for hundreds of thousands of Nigerians.
Ahmed defined that the joint trade market research accomplished by the last decade of fuel secretariat offered a framework for accelerating rollout, monitoring progress, figuring out gaps and strengthening implementation efforts to speed up the adoption of CNG as a transportation gasoline.
