The Nigerian government has inaugurated the Compressed Natural Gas Initiative’s Conversion Incentive Programme in Abeokuta, Ogun State.
The initiative seeks to help vehicles switch their energy source from petrol to CNG, following high petrol prices since the removal of the subsidy.
The programme director of the presidential CNG initiative, Michael Oluwagbemi, said at the event on Friday that the programme aimed to convert one million vehicles to run on CNG.
He commended Ogun State for being a pioneer in adopting CNG for transportation.
Mr Oluwagbemi said the programme will partner with conversion centres, with four already signed up in the state.
He said the centres would receive free conversion kits from the Federal Ministry of Finance, adding that members of road transport associations and other commercial drivers would have their vehicles converted at no cost.
“What we are doing here now is to flag off the incentive programme that the president announced in…