The Ogun State Government is now making moves to begin the process of converting vehicles from fuel to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) as a team of technical engineers from India arrived in the state.

This effort signals the commencement of the E-Mobility and Gas Mobility Programme of the state government which involves the conversion of mass transit buses from fuel to gas and tricycles and motorcycles to electric.

In a statement made available to newsmen, Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Tokunbo Talabi said the Indian engineers are in the process of starting the conversion process.

According to him, the state’s mass transit buses will start running on CNG in the coming days, in line with the promise by Prince Abiodun that the project would commence in the first week of August.

“The CNG team is on the ground. I was part of the team that received the CNG kits on behalf of the government early in the year and I visited the project site this morning (Tuesday). His Excellency, Prince Dapo Abiodun is a man of his word and such a highly progressive Governor deserves all necessary support for Ogun State to continue to progress.

“The aim is to improve and modernize bus operations in Ogun State through conversion of buses to Compressed Natural Gas by equipping them with the latest technology to improve environmental and operational performance”, Talabi revealed.

The four-man technical team will 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.

The government took delivery of the CNG conversion kits for the pilot phase of the state’s mass transit buses to be fueled by the CNG.

The CNG project demonstrates the commitment of the administration to a cleaner economy and ensures cheaper means of transportation in the state.