June 11, 2022. The Ministry of Transportation, the National Automotive Design and Development Council and Road Transport Employers Association (RTEAN) have introduced natural gas-powered commercial vehicles into the nation’s transportation system.
This was disclosed at an event in Abuja by the national chairman of RTEAN, Alhaji Dr Musa Muhammad (Maitakobi). He said 2,322 vehicles would be distributed to the 774 local government areas in the country.
According to Dr. Muhammad, the move for commercial vehicles that are powered by compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) is part of the federal government’s efforts to migrate vehicles in the country from using petroleum to the use of CNG as it is obtainable in many parts of the world.
He said, ‘‘This current initiative was borne out of consideration for the observed advantages of using and relying on gas instead of petroleum and other several advantage which include creating of jobs for teeming unemployed Nigerian. It will also encourage the reductions of gas flaring and improve economic gains of gas and increase fund generations from conservations.”
‘‘The initiative is also in partnership with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). We should all encourage and support it in order to enhance efficiency in the nation’s transportation system which has a great economic advantage and does not pollute the environment. The federal government has declared this as a decade of gas and transportation contributes to 15 percent of the country’s carbon emission.”
