The Nigerian government has again reaffirmed its policy drive aimed at ensuring the use of compressed natural gas as a source of energy to power automobiles in the country.
National programme officer of the presidential initiative on CNG, Micheal Oluwagbemi, disclosed this in Ado Ekiti at the launch of the conversion incentive programme in Ekiti State.
The Presidential CNG Initiative was approved by president Bola Tinubu in 2023 to provide cheaper & cleaner fueling alternative for Nigerians.
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The national programme officer of the initiative, Micheal Oluwagbemi who noted that the initiative is a well thought scheme aimed at reducing the impact of fuel subsidy removal in 2023, advised Ekiti residents and Nigerians at large to embrace the scheme.
Governor Biodun Oyebanji, who was represented by the commissioner for public utilities at the lauch, Prof Bolaji Aluko, expressed the state’s readiness to key into the initiative of the federal government .
Key players in the industry at the event highlighted some of the benefits of compressed natural gas to power automobiles in the country.
The federal government also handed over fifteen CNG powered buses to the state government for use by residents .
(Editor: Ebuwa Omo-Osagie)
