Federal Government announces plans to stop ownership of gas cylinders by consumers

The Federal Government has implied on its arrangements to set up a strategy that will expel the responsibility for Petroleum Gas (cooking gas) chambers from buyers.

The FG expressed that the move would help extend the utilization of LPG, prominently known as cooking gas, expressing that the legislature had achieved a concurrence with two unique barrel producers to convey 600,000 chambers to LPG merchants using a credit card, with a pre-installment time of year and a half.

Talking at a partners' gathering on LPG infiltration in Abuja on Tuesday, the Senior Technical Assistant to the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources on Downstream and Infrastructure, Brenda Ataga, noticed that the arranged approach on gas chambers would necessitate that the responsibility for office "lays carefully on the sellers and merchants."

She noticed that beside developing the entrance and use of LPG the nation over, the strategy would likewise address issues of wellbeing.

She said the Federal Government would before long initiate a clampdown on illicit roadside LPG vendors and asked administrators to promptly change over their outlets to smaller scale appropriation focuses before the start of the authorization.

"The MDCs will basically make and bring into the market what we call the barrel trade program, whereby the chambers are possessed by the wholesalers," Ataga said. She told administrators, "There is no requirement for you to empty for anyone that comes in, and that dispenses with illicit dangers also. You would fill them at the refill plants that would be attached to you and trade it with your clients since you know your clients as of now. "Your clients pay for just the substance, while you claim the chambers and control the administration of those barrels."

Giving motivations to the strategy, Ataga said;

"It is for us to have the option to, anytime, recognize and find barrels that are awful, chambers that need recertification and barrels that should be expelled from course.

"We put that onus on wholesalers going ahead, to help the protected and standard strategy for selling LPG. I disclose to you today that Nigeria is the main nation in West Africa that does not rehearse the re-dissemination model. Everybody has moved far from this on the grounds that once more, the vast majority of the populace can't bear the cost of chambers; thus, you need to expel that cost from them."