Vehicle house owners who transformed their vehicles to run on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) have protested its unavailability in Minna, Niger State, lamenting that they’ve been unable to entry the product for the previous three months.
The protesters besieged the NNPC Mega Station alongside the Western Bypass axis in Minna, one of many CNG stations within the space, to attract the eye of the authorities to their plight.
They mentioned the persistent scarcity had undermined the advantages of changing their automobiles from Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) to CNG, which is taken into account a extra reasonably priced and environmentally pleasant various.
According to the automobile house owners, they incurred substantial prices changing their engines to make use of CNG in anticipation of decrease working bills, solely to seek out the product unavailable in Minna.
They described the scenario as counterproductive, arguing that the funding in conversion had didn’t ship the anticipated financial savings as a result of they may not get hold of the fuel to energy their automobiles.
One of the protesters, Engr. Israel Ogbonnaya, mentioned the extended unavailability of CNG had pressured them to stage the protest and draw the eye of the related authorities to their difficulties.
The automobile house owners known as for pressing intervention to revive CNG provide in Minna and be certain that motorists who had invested in conversion may entry the product.
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