By Adedapo Adesanya
The federal government has pledged to supply not less than 10 million gas cylinders of the Liquified Petroleum Gas to the market as part of efforts to increase access to the commodity.
This was disclosed by the Managing Director of the Nigeria LPG (NLNG), Mr Musa Ibrahim, during a two-day sensitization workshop in Bauchi on Tuesday.
The two-day sensitization awareness workshop was tagged Engaging Bauchi State Towards Sustainable Socio-economic Growth through LPG adoption and expansion.
He said the cylinders would be distributed nationwide through registered marketers, saying the agency would establish micro sales and distribution centres for the cylinders.
“The price of the safe cylinders is affordable as the LPG is capable of improving economic activities of the end-users,” he said.
On his part, Mr Dayo Adeshina, the Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on LPG, urged the people of the state to embrace the use of the LPG in their households.
He explained that the federal government was considering the possibility of increasing access to the commodity by reducing the high cost of the LPG to expand affordability.
The SSA said the use of cooking gas would reduce instances of deforestation, desertification and soil erosion which contribute seriously to environmental hazards.
In his remarks, Governor Bala Mohammed, represented by his deputy, Mr Baba Tela, assured that his government would support the programme to succeed.
He called on the national LPG office to develop a means or device through which gas for firing automobiles to reduce carbon emissions will be introduced.
He explained that many Nigerians are ignorant of the potential of the LPG, stressing that citizens need to be adequately aware of the potential of the product.
Earlier in his remarks, the Bauchi State Commissioner for Natural Resources, Mr Nuruddeen Abdulhameed, said the government would fully support the implementation of the project.
He said the state government would provide a spacious plot of land and the political will to see to the successful take-off of the programme.
