The Federal Government has begun clampdown on illegal gas plants and roadside retailers of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, LPG, known as cooking gas.
DPR’s Operations Controller, Port Harcourt Zone, Bassey Nkanga, made this known on the sideline of the department’s ongoing surveillance on gas plants in Port Harcourt, Rivers state.
Government had in May stopped customers’ ownership of cylinders as well as barred the refilling of gas cylinders by the roadsides and other unauthorized places.
The policy, the government said, would require that the ownership of LPG cylinders rest solely with the dealers and distributors.
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.
He
explained that government was also clamping down on operators of illegal gas
plants; those operating without valid licence and others operating within
residential areas.
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