Palliative Committee Calls For Patience As It Work Out Modalities For Petrol Subsidy
The presidential committee on palliatives for the petrol subsidy removal, says it is still working on the modalities to ease the pains of the policy.
Chairman of the committee, governor Nasir Idris, stated this at a meeting of the committee on sunday in Abuja.
The meeting had in attendance, governors Bala Mohammed of Bauchi, Charles Soludo of Anambra, UBA Sani of Kaduna and Hyacinth Alia of Benue, as well representatives of the organised labour and civil society organisations.
Idris, pleaded for patience, support and co-operation from Nigerians to actualize the agenda of the Tinubu admnistration on the palliatives.
He assured that the relief package would soon be rolled out to benefit Nigerians.
The committee set up last June 19, to work out modalities for implementing the relief measures agreed to during the negotiations on the petrol subsidy removal.
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In a telephone interview with Daily Sun, Chairman of Innoson Vehicles Manufacturing Limited(IVM), Mr. Innocent Chukwuma, said his company was yet to get orders for the supply of CNG buses either from the Federal or State Governments.
‘‘What I can tell you is that the words we got from governments is that they are still preparing for the take-off of these mass transit buses. Not until they place orders, there is nothing much we can do,’’.
But as for us at IVM, we are fully prepared for the supply of the vehicles whenever they are ready,’’ he said.
The Federal Government’s Autogas Initiative which plans to convert at least one million vehicles to run on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) has since hit a brick-wall.
Launched in December 2020, the national autogas initiative is aimed at reducing the country’s high reliance on petrol and promoting the use of gas as a cleaner fuel for vehicles.
However, 30 months after, the government has failed to meet the target of converting one million vehicles to CNG.
