Fuel Price Hike: FG To Commission 30,000 Gas Powered Vehicles In 90days 

The Nigerian government has disclosed that plans are in place to commission 30,000 Compressed Natural Gas powered vehicles in the next 90 days.

The Project Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative, Michael Oluwagbemi, disclosed this during the Park to Park CNG Mobilisation program held at the Ojota Park in Lagos on Saturday.

According to Mr. Michael, the initiative is a welcome development to ensure the adoption of CNG as an alternative for fuel transportation.

However, he noted that the drive is expected to gulp N36 billion for 30,000 CNG conversion kits for distribution free of charge nationwide within the period

He added that the kits and the conversion costs were valued at the rate of N1.2m per vehicle, making a total of N36bn within the next three months.

“Today, we are here with conversion kits. We have bought over 30,000 of these kits, mainly for distribution in the next 90 days

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“The President has told us that this is not just to end with 30,000 kits, the target is one million kits. We want to make sure all of you can benefit from this government initiative,” he stated.

“The era of buying N750, N800, or N1,000/liter fuel is over. We are not doing that again. We will start using the gas under our feet so that we can buy it at N230/kg,” he stated.