It said the role played by middle men in the gas industry was the major contributory factor to the exorbitant and skyrocketing price of the essential item in the country.
‘‘But from 2020, we started witnessing a decline basically due to low local production and increased level of imports,’’ he had said. “Meanwhile, the real plant owners are subjected to ridicule and are sidelined and manipulated, to suit their preferred non-qualified middlemen, as licensed plant owners are made to waste their hard-earned resources in chasing after long list of requirements for them to be part of Offtakers, an effort that normally ends with no tangible result.
“But our call for sanity and fair play in the industry was not heeded, as those in NLGN are still not ready to make the price of gas to crash, because they have continued to connive with some selected Offtakers to operate in secrecy, thereby manipulating the cost of the cooking gas to the detriment of ordinary Nigerians.