The federal authorities has pledged to accentuate efforts to advertise Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) as a less expensive different gasoline for transportation, with a renewed give attention to 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 give attention to crucial interventions.
In an announcement in Abuja, the minister urged the Pi-CNG & EV workplace and the secretariat to step up investments, broaden 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 mentioned the drive had turn into crucial following the removing of petrol subsidy and the necessity to present Nigerians with a extra inexpensive and environmentally pleasant different 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, mentioned the initiative would step up investments and programmes to broaden CNG infrastructure and enhance car conversions nationwide and result in cheaper transport fares for thousands and thousands of Nigerians.
Ahmed defined that the joint business 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.
