BILL BANNING PETROL VEHICLES TO BE ENACTED BY THE NIGERIAN SENATE

National Assembly, Abuja

BILL BANNING PETROL VEHICLES TO BE ENACTED BY THE NIGERIAN SENATE

By Udante Ugante

13^th December, 2017.

The Nigerian Senate would enact bill banning petrol vehicles in three years. This hint was dropped by the Chairman Senate Committee on environment, Oluremi Tinubu on Tuesday at the 11^th National Stakeholders Forum on the theme “Environmental Governance; a key to achieving green economy” in Abuja.

Tinubu who was represented at the occasion by the vice chairman of the committee, Senator Foster Ogolor said the implication of gas emissions to the ozone layer were such that Nigeria must follow other progressive nations in adopting by-drocarbon gas adding that when the issue of environment and greening the economy for sustainable development are discussed, there has to be a legislation on ensuring all industries in Nigeria are running on green fuel, solar energy and other alternative systems.

The Senator further stressed the need to strengthen NESREA and come up with a law that says in the next three years, all automobiles in Nigeria must use gas and other non-fuel systems, fuel cells, solar power and the rest.

Senator Tinubu

According to the Senator “The time to set the frame work is now; if we don’t do that now, we would only delay dooms day. Other countries have set up their green polices economy and Nigerians cannot drive their cars to such countries. In India today, all the tricycle and all the public transport systems go on compressed gas.

“The standard needs to be set in Nigeria. The European Union has set its own standards that in less than 10 years; we would not have anything to do with petroleum products as sources of fuel except compressed natural gas or natural gas. If we don’t get it right through the law and penalties set in that law to punitively punish those who disobeyed it, we would not get to where we want”.

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