The
use of the Liquefied Petroleum Gas
also known as cooking gas in Nigeria
had been rated low amongst some African countries. In order to reduce, initiate
and create healthy environment for citizens, countries like China, Brazil, Indonesian and amongst others had been switched
from the use of Kerosene to cooking gas. The correspondent had examined the use
of cooking gas as an alternative to kerosene.
According
to the correspondent, he said that industrial statistics showed that Nigeria is
blessed with over 180 trillion Cubic feet of Gas, and the second largest
producer of Gas in Africa and 6th in the world. Despite this issue of
gas deposit, the country remains low in the use of Cooking Gas, for instance, depending
on the capacity to consume one million metric tanks yearly, they presently
consume is about a year 20,000 metric liquid
tons of cooking gas. This is a bit service gap which leaves evidence to make no
better choices like Kerosene, fire wood, Saw Dust and other forms of energy
resources which are considered injurious to human health and the environment.
Although
experts had warned that Dual Purpose Kerosene
(DPK) otherwise known as Kerosene
emits suits that is poisonous to the health. Still over 600 billion naira is
spent on the purchase of kerosene annually in Nigeria. The federal government
is a fix bit to suit the plight of the citizens. 800 billion kerosene subsidy, even is citizenry to spent as much as
backs on the product. The greatest is that the scarcity of kerosene had continued
to face the challenge across the nation despite bill subsidy payments by the
federal government. Due to high
demand and shortage in supply of this product, adulteration and other sharp
practices shall become warm, as many domestic users speak on their reservation
for kerosene.
According
to one reporter of the scarcity of this product who said that the product is
very costly this days, normally she uses kerosene in cooking but because of the
inflation on the product she had pack her cooking stove by the side and
purchase Gas Burner and cylinder to start using cooking gas. While still reporting
is another female at the scene of the interview said that gas is more
preferable to kerosene because it does not emits suit as kerosene will darken
your pot and ruffle the whole cooking environment with black charcoal.
Since
Kerosene is said to be more injurious to the health, there had been more people
and dealers patronizing cooking gas dealers to Kerosene in Nigeria. Some end
users of cooking gas explained the advantages of using cooking gas over the use
of kerosene for domestic and commercial purposes. According to a cooking gas
domestic user who said previously he will pay N2000.00 to fill up his gas and they see it as expensive but now they don’t
see it as expensive since the inflation of kerosene had worsen the whole issues.
The
fact remains that in the past due to fire incidences as a result of carelessness,
some people find it difficult to make use of cooking gas because of the notion
and believe towards it. So this had made residents to shy away from the use of
gas, mean while, safety professionals said kerosene can be obtainable as gas if
not handled properly.
For
safety experts MR. PRINCE NWOSU highlights
some safety tips on the use of Gas:
(1)
it is good that
you always leave kitchen windows open in case of leakage of gas
(2)
and make sure you
keep your children away from cooking gas
Industrial
Analyst and energy sector Player MR. CHIAMOS
DADA argues that Nigeria has the potential to adequate local gas supply if
only the government can be a global industry for proper player participations.
Sector
observers believed that it had become imperative for the government to embark
on kerosene to Gas campaign by distributing lower capacity Gas cylinders ranging
from fate to check on safety of the masses as it is being done in other
developing countries like India and
Malaysia.
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