adsThe price of liquefied petroleum gas in Nigeria has surged past N1,500 per kilogram, pushing millions of households to the financial edge and threatening to reverse nearly a decade of progress on clean cooking energy, according to the country’s main association of cooking gas marketers.
The Nigerian Association of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Marketers (NALPGAM) issued a stark warning on Sunday, telling the federal government that the situation risked provoking public anger against gas station owners if left unaddressed.
The group said its members were now paying as much as N25.2 million, and in some locations N26.2 million, for a single 20-metric-ton consignment of LPG, costs that are being passed down the supply chain directly to consumers.
“We cannot stand by and watch millions of Nigerian families suffer in silence while access to clean cooking energy becomes increasingly difficult and unaffordable,” Edu Inyang, national president of NALPGAM Mr. Bassey Essien, executive secretary, said in a joint statement.
Food vendors who rely on gas-fired stoves to run their businesses, low-income families for whom LPG was only recently becoming affordable, and small enterprises operating on thin margins are all absorbing costs they were not structured to bear.adsads
