Moses Onate, a member of the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) Initiative, says additional 1,000 kits are being distributed across Abuja and four states.

Mr Onate disclosed this during an inspection tour of a warehouse at Ibafo on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Friday. Some CNG kits are being kept in the warehouse.

According to Mr Onate, the committee is cataloging the 1,000 kits and cylinders for distribution to Lagos, Ogun, Kaduna, Oyo, and Abuja.

“As of this morning, 450 have gone out to Kaduna and Abuja. Five hundred and fifty will be going out to Lagos, Oyo, and Ogun states,” he said.

He said the federal government had not got any negative feedback on kits distributed previously.

On public awareness about the initiative, Mr Onate said the committee pushed out much information through social media handles about the need to key into the initiative.

He said there were up to 10 CNG conversion centres in Lagos State alone.

“This initiative will seriously help people as regards the cost in the sense that fuel is around a thousand naira now, but CNG is around N210/N230.

“The gross margin between what fuel is being sold for and CNG price will have a lot of positive impact on everybody.

“We will actually live to enjoy CNG,” he said.

Austin Nwaoduh, a pipeline engineer at the warehouse, said CNG was cheaper, had a low consumption rate, and was user-friendly.

He added that CNG did not emit much fumes into the atmosphere.

“It is a good and worthy initiative by the president; it will bring down the cost of running our cars,” he said.

(NAN)