The Federal Government is deepening the consumption of cooking gas in Nigeria through a scheme to pay for the transportation of gas
Ahmed Bobboi, the Executive Secretary of the Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF), who announced this in Abuja,said that equalization for the transportation of gas will leverage on existing infrastructure used for paying for the transportation of petrol across the country.
According to him,following the declaration of the decade of gas by the Federal Government, PEF was working to expand domestic gas usage across the country.
He said equalization and bridging have worked well for petrol distribution by ensuring stable price across the country, adding that bridging cost for gas will make it accessible and affordable for consumers.
He added:“If it is working well for petrol, we said well government wants to promote the use of gas, if we can extend that scheme to gas we believe that it will add value to the economy in so many ways in the value chain.
“It will help in getting the consumers in those areas to accept the usage of gas and abandon the age long use of fire wood in cooking with its attendant problems and challenges including health hazards and deforestation which causes a lot of problems in the country.
“It will also make the product available because we have it in abundance in the country. It also make affordable to the people because if you incentives the marketer by paying for his transportation to take it to the last mile, the consumer will also be incentives because the marketer will bring down his price so that it will be affordable and accessible to consumer”, he explained.
