The Federal Government has begun clampdown on illegal gas plants and roadside retailers of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, popularly known as cooking gas, an official said.
Mr Bassey Nkanga, DPR’s Operations Controller, Port Harcourt Zone, disclosed this in an interview withon Monday on the sideline of the department’s ongoing surveillance on gas plants in Port Harcourt.
According to Nkanga, the department had held several meetings with operators of gas plants and LPG retailers to introduce them to standard minimum requirements acceptable in the industry.“That is why we are encouraging, enlightening, and engaging them to adopt the new methodologies, whereby, somebody would have to drop and pick another one with gas.
Nkanga further said that government was also clamping down on operators of illegal gas plants; those operating without valid licence and others operating within residential areas. “We also had several meetings with various stakeholders in the gas sector. We told them those operating without licence will not be allowed to operate again.
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