Although the Federal Government has declared 2021 to 2030 a decade of gas, with the Central Bank of Nigeria setting up a N250 billion fund to expand the usage of the product across the country, the cost of cooking gas is fast rising beyond the reach of the common man.In fact, findings by The Guardian showed that households and restaurants that had bid goodbye to firewood and charcoal usage have begun to embrace them again.
Kyari, who spoke during a working visit to the headquarters of the Department of Petroleum Resources in Abuja, declared that the supply mechanism for the product in the country had become weak.“Today, this country is under-supplied with gas. I can tell you that we are having difficulty feeding our network across the country with gas every day; it is a trouble to deliver gas. Once your supply is weak, it will affect pricing.
“What we do is that we alternate the usage. For instance, when we want to cook something that will take a longer time like beans, which we use to make gbegiri, we use charcoal. Government should come to the aid of the masses by subsidising the prices of cooking gas, kerosene and even petrol because we also use it to power our generator when there is no electricity supply. The agonies are too much.
Most drinking spots visited by The Guardian also favoured the use of charcoal for cooking the delicacies they usually serve with drinks. Further findings showed that as a result of the resort to charcoal for cooking, the price has risen from N2, 600 to N3,200 per bag. A charcoal dealer, who identified herself as Madam Atinuke, confirmed this.
A former Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos and an environmentalist, Prof. Babajide Alo, told The Guardian that the hike in price of domestic gas did not augur well for the country, especially with the environment. Olukoya explained that “when wood is burnt and the natural carbon dioxide and oxygen interchange is disrupted, it destroys the ozone layer, and this results in increased heat, increase in evaporation, rise in sea level and consequently flooding.”
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