The Federal Government has ordered the chief executive officers and
their lieutenants in agencies under the Federal Ministry of Petroleum
Resources to convert all their official vehicles to run on autogas.
It was gathered that the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources,
Chief Timipre Sylva, who gave the directive in Abuja, had already
submitted all his vehicles to be converted to run on gas, as opposed
to petrol.
The minister said the conversation of vehicles in his ministry and
agencies to run on autogas, was to demonstrate to Nigerians that the
government was serious with its declaration of 2020 as “the year of
gas.”
Sylva disclosed this in his address at the Ministerial Mandate
Performance Scorecard Review session of the Minister of State for
Petroleum Resources, permanent secretary and CEOs of agencies under
the petroleum ministry.
Since 2019, the Federal Government has been pushing for the usage of
Compressed Natural Gas and Liquefied Petroleum Gas in automobiles to
utilize Nigeria’s abundant gas reserves.
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