The
Federal Government is coming up with a policy that will remove the ownership of
Liquefied Petroleum Gas (cooking gas) cylinders from consumers.
It
stated that the move would help deepen the use of LPG, popularly known as
cooking gas, adding that the government had reached an agreement with two
original cylinder manufacturers to deliver 600,000 cylinders to LPG
distributors on credit, with a pre-payment period of 18 months.
Speaking
at a stakeholders’ forum on LPG penetration in Abuja on Tuesday, the Senior
Technical Assistant to the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources on
Downstream and Infrastructure, Brenda Ataga , noted that the planned
policy on gas cylinders would require that the ownership of the facility “rests
strictly on the dealers and distributors.”
She
noted that aside from deepening the penetration and usage of LPG across the
country, the policy would also address issues of safety.
She
said the Federal Government would soon commence a clampdown on illegal roadside
LPG dealers and urged operators to immediately convert their outlets to micro
distribution centres before the beginning of the enforcement.
“The
MDCs will essentially create and introduce into the market what we call the
cylinder exchange programme, whereby the cylinders are owned by the
distributors,” Ataga said.
- Punch
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