Ogun state government is set to convert all state buses to begin to run on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG).
The state governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, disclosed this when he received participants of the Senior Executive Course 45, Group 1, of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS) Kuru, Jos.
According to him, the E-mobility and Gas-mobility programme of the state would take off in the first week of August.
Politics Nigeria reports that the e-mobility and gas mobility involve the conversion of mass transit buses from petrol to gas and motorcycles (Okada) to electric.
“I am proud to say that in Ogun State, we have put in measures and plans to begin an energy transition plan and we are going to start converting all our state buses to begin to run on CNG,” Abiodun said.
‘’That programme has already commenced and we are actually going to launch what we call our our E-mobility and Gas Mobility Programme sometime around the end of this month or first week in August.
“The gas mobility is that which we convert not just our buses to operate on gas, but all mass transit will begin to operate on gas and our E-mobility is a program that will make for all our motorcycles and tricycles to run on electricity.
‘’They will be battery-powered. We are going to launch that program either last week of this month or first week of next month.”
The governor revealed that the administration would take bikes from riders and give them electric powered bikes adding that this would help in the battle against climate change.
“We will take the motorcycles from the riders and give them electric powered motorcycles, this program will have a cushion effect on what our masses are currently experiencing and besides that, it will begin a new phase of dispensation of clean energy which speaks to the issue of climate change.”
