Autogas Conversion For Vehicles Is Free -FG

The Federal Government has retracted its earlier statement that diesel and petrol automobiles owners would pay N250,000 for autogas conversion.
Technical Adviser on Gas Business and Policy Implementation to the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Justice Derefaka, told journalists, last Friday, that his previous statement that vehicle owners would pay N250,000 for autogas conversion was not correct.
Derefaka had said, during a television programme on Channels, last Wednesday, that, ”The cost varies. So, in terms of cost implication, it depends on the cylinder of the vehicle. And of course, for a typical SUV cylinder, it is a bit higher but on the average, it is around N200,000 to N250,000 and this is for a four-cylinder vehicle, but it becomes a little bit higher for a six-cylinder SUV vehicle”.
Derefaka’s statement was contrary to remarks earlier made by the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, that the Federal Government would provide free autogas conversion services for cars.
“You bring your car to a location and then we fit in the things you need to call the gas and also to receive the gas into your car”, Kyari had said.
Derefaka has, however, retracted his earlier statement saying now that “All the one million cars that we promised will be done through a structure that the Ministry of Petroleum Resources will put in place to ensure that any Nigerian who has to convert his car will get it done for free”.
According to him, the government aims to convert one million vehicles to run on autogas by the end of 2021.
“I granted an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily where I stated that the auto conversion of vehicles to run on gas will amount to N250,000 and Nigerians will need to pay for that. That statement is not correct, it’s wrong.”
“On that note, I would like to state the true position which has been made by my boss, the Honourable Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr Timipre Sylva, and of course, being corroborated by the Group Managing Director, Mallam Mele Kyari, that government will convert those vehicles for free to Nigerians, and we are looking at one million vehicles by the end of 2021,” he said.