The Federal Government says it has commenced distribution of fresh Compressed Natural Gas kits to some states of the federation in its drive to foster rapid adoption of CNG.
This was disclosed Friday by an official of the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative, Moses Onate, during an inspection of the CNG kit warehouse located in Ibafo, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Ogun State.
With the hike in fuel prices, many drivers claimed they have been struggling to keep their businesses afloat.
The exercise, which the Federal Government said could reduce the cost of transportation by over 40 per cent started in Abuja and Lagos.
Speaking on the distribution Onate noted that states like Lagos, Oyo, Kaduna, Ogun and the FCT would be getting 1,000 conversion kits to continue the conversion initiative.
Onate added that of the 1,000 kits made available to the warehouse, 450 have been distributed to Kaduna and Abuja while 550 would be distributed to Lagos, Ogun and Oyo.
He said, “As of this morning, 450 have gone out to Kaduna and Abuja. 550 will be going to Lagos, Oyo, and Ogun states today.”
He also said the FG had not got any negative feedback on the kits distributed previously.
According to him, there are up to 10 CNG conversion centres in Lagos State alone.
“This initiative will seriously help people as regards the cost in the sense that fuel is around a thousand naira now, but CNG is around N210/N230.
“The gross margin between what fuel is being sold for and CNG price will have a lot of positive impact on everybody. We will live to enjoy CNG,” he said.
In his reaction, a pipeline engineer at the warehouse, Austin Nwaodhu, urged motorists and vehicle owners to adopt the CNG initiative stressing that it offers a cheaper alternative to fuel because of its low consumption rate, and user-friendliness.
He added that CNG did not emit much fumes into the atmosphere which could cause harm to members of the public.
“CNG is a good initiative by the president that will help to bring down the cost of running a vehicle compared to petrol. It will bring down the cost of running our cars.
“It is friendly to the environment and does not emit fumes unlike petrol,” Nwaodhu stressed.
