The Ogun State government yesterday said a team of technical engineers from India has arrived in the state to begin the process of converting vehicles from fuel consumption engine to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) powered engines.
According to the government, the move signaled the commencement of the E-Mobility and Gas Mobility Programme of the state government, which involves the conversion of mass transit buses.
The Secretary to the State Government, Tokunbo Talabi, on Wednesday said the project would also involve conversion of tricycles and motorcycles from fuel consumption to electric-powered machines.
He said the four-man technical team would work on the pilot project, initiate the first phase of the Gas Mobility Programme and further prepare a process map to scale up and do a phase-wise implementation on all the commercial buses in the state.
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“The Prince Dapo Abiodun-led administration had in March this year, in partnership with Nigerian Transport Solutions Limited (NGTSL), taken delivery of the CNG conversion kits for the pilot phase of the state’s mass transit buses to be fuelled by the CNG,” Talabi said.
He said the Indian engineers are in the process of starting the conversion process.
He said the state’s mass transit buses would start running on CNG in the coming days, in line with the promise by Abiodun that the project would commence in the first week of August.
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