The federal government has partnered the Association of Local Government of Nigeria (ALGON) to establish Compressed Natural Gas service centers in the 774 local governments of the federation.
This was disclosed on Wednesday in Abuja at a stakeholders meeting in line with the current administration’s efforts to reduce carbon emission in the country.
The Minister of Transportation, Said Alkali who was represented by the Director, Road Transportation and Mass Transit, Musa Ibrahim noted that there were millions of vehicles on Nigerian roads that were running on petrol.
He said: “We have been approached by investors who want to partner with us to see that we have as many cars being converted to CNG.”
Alkali added that the federal government believed that service centers for CNG conversion should not be in urban centres alone, which is the government was partnering with the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria to ensure that it also had the service centers closer to the people at the grassroots.
Also speaking, the Director General of the Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology (NITT), Bayero Farah said the collaboration with ALGON was important owing to the fact that majority of Nigeria’s population are in the grassroots who will benefit from the conversion policy
Farah said that the NITT has already sent its engineers for training to oversee both locally and internationally to equip them with the requisite skills they need to provide services in all 774 LGA in order to develop a roadmap for the actualisation of the project.
Similarly, the DG of ALGON, Itiakpo Ikpokpo said the association has welcomed the partnership and would collaborate with the federal government to achieve the CNG roadmap actualisation plan.
