Ekiti State Government has taken delivery of 15 CNG buses from the Federal Government under the Presidential Compressed Natural Gas Initiative (Pi-CNG) with a pledge to convert many government vehicles as quickly as possible.
Governor Biodun Oyebanji who made the promise in Ado Ekiti during the official launch of the Conversion Incentive Program and handover of the CNG buses to the State Government, said that some Government vehicles had already been converted for CNG use while many others had been identified for conversion “in the shortest possible time”.
Speaking through the State Commissioner for Infrastructure and Public Utilities, Prof. Mobolaji Aluko, Governor Oyebanji expressed appreciation to President Bola Tinubu for the provision of the purely CNG buses for commercial use of the State’s Mass Transit scheme.
Oyebanji said “the cost of the buses is to be recovered from the commercial use of long haul transportation between Ekiti, Lagos and Abuja, and we look to work with NURTW and RTEAN to ensure that any past failures of the mass transit system in Ekiti State are not repeated”.
