Kyari had on Tuesday said one million cars would be powered by autogas free of charge.
Car owners will pay
about N250,000 to have their vehicles converted to run on gas, contrary to
information earlier given by the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari.
Kyari had on Tuesday
said one million cars would be powered by autogas free of charge.
Speaking on Channels
Television’s Sunrise Daily programme on Wednesday, Justice Derefaka, Technical
Adviser, Gas Business and Policy Implementation to the Minister of State for
Petroleum, Timipre Sylva, explained that vehicle owners would have different payment
plans to convert their cars to autogas.
“The conversion of
your vehicle is not something that will take three weeks or seven days; it will
take you around seven to eight hours because they [technicians] need to make a
diagnosis of your vehicle to see if it is fit for conversion. After that, they
will test for roadworthiness and then proceed.”
When asked who bears
the cost for the conversion of the vehicles, Derefaka said, “Who owns the car?
The owner of the car basically will decide to say I want to run on autogas or
CNG or LNG. As the honourable minister had mentioned before, conversion has
basic strands. You can partner with your bank, and the bank will now agree with
the conversion centre to convert your vehicle, not for free entirely.
“The installer will
now put some form of mechanism that each time you buy the gas, a certain amount
will be deducted to pay for the conversion kit. Some people will say it is too
expensive, but I don’t think it is because, within a period of five to seven
months, you’ve already paid off the cost.”
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