Isaac Ademola Agoro Engineering Foundation has started training young engineers in area of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) conversion.

This was to support President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Federal Government-led administration towards conversion of vehicles to CNG across the nation.

The founder of the Foundation, Engr. Ademola Agoro, while speaking to the media, stated that the importance of the training was to complement effort of federal government in conversion to CNG so as to cushion effect of fuel subsidy removal.

Agoro said: “To fulfill President Tinubu mandate. We have capacity to bring in a lot of conversion kits to this country and in support of federal government initiative, so when we train people, anybody that want to work with us, we will be able to employ them.

“And if they want to go and set up, anywhere in Nigeria, we will be supporting them. Trainees come from everywhere in the country, and we will encourage them to have small workshop that can do the convertion, so if they need support, we will be happy to supply them with every necessary engineering backing.

“We are not doing it for ourselves but to have a lot of this all over Nigeria.”

The facilitator, who also doubles as the Chairman, Nigeria Society of Engineers, Oluyole Branch Engr (Dr.) Adewale Ikotun said the training was in line with President Tinubu mandate of converting one million vehicles to CNG Auto gas.

“For some, they may think it’s on the high side, but you recover your money within a short time. For example, I drive on this Pathfinder, I complete this installation with N1.3m, and I confirmed that within six months, I had recovered my money back because I travel a lot with it.

“A journey that will take me fifty thousand naira petrol will take me five thousand naira gas. In terms of the safety, the notion that gas is dangerous .But we actually use gas to cook in the house, even women in the village, they use gas. Who can use petrol to cook in the house?

“The CNG cylinder comes with a lot of safety devices. It’s very difficult for it to explode. It has what it is called pressure relief gas. The only thing that can explode cylinder is when it goes over pressure, but they had incorporated a pressure relief verb that will release the gas, and the gas will flare in the atmosphere.

“The CNG we are talking about is lighter than air. He doesn’t come together as a cloud, it disappear into the air. It also comes with a temperature relief verb.

“The cylinder itself is a bullet-proof cylinder. Overall, it is very safe. They had been using this technology in Malaysia and Europe for the past thirty years.”