| GAS CYLINDER |
An alarm has been sounded by the Liquefied
Petroleum Gas Retailers Association (LPGRA), NUPENG Branch about the illegal
importation of fake and sub-standard gas cylinders into the Nigerian market.
This discovery was made known by the association’s
secretary, Mr. Monday Nwatu in an interview he granted the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Wednesday. He expressed the need to take urgent steps
to arrest the situation.
Mr. Nwatu said there was no longer regulation in
terms of importation of the cylinders, adding that anybody could go to China and
India and bring in cylinders and as a result some of the cylinders in the
market were substandard.
He noted that Nigeria had very few companies
producing cylinders in the country and even the few ones that were active had
to contend with the problem of power outage which made their production to be low
thus affecting the cost of cylinders and basically leaving Nigerians with no
option but to depend on imported cylinders.
The Association Secretary said most imported ones
you see in the market that had no name, no SON logo to show that they had been
certified for use and the implication was that you begin to notice rust on the
body of some of these cylinders in less than a year
He said the danger generally in Nigeria was that
every substandard gas cylinder posed more danger than the Boko Haram onslaught,
because the explosion of a substandard gas cylinder could cause massive havoc.
It can be noticed that in recent times the
incidence of gas cylinder explosions has increased leading to a number of
deaths and loss of property.
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