The Aare Atunluse of Awori Kingdom and the Chairman of Mapcotec Nigeria Limited, Aare (Surveyor) Dr. Segun Osifeso, has commended the President Bola Tinubu’s administration’s recent conversion of over 100,000 petrol – powered vehi-cles to Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) and the launch of 2, 000 tractors for nationwide deploy-ment under the Renewed Hope Agricultural Mechanisation Programme. Aare Osifeso, who made these remarks during a chat with newsmen at Ota on Mon-day, noted that the CNG initia-tive was a significant progress in advancing the use of alterna-tive fuel across the country. He said that as the Federal Government ramped up efforts to cushion the effects of fuel sub-sidy removal, the initiative had achieved a major success for the country. The renowned surveyor par-ticularly applauded President Tinubu’s vision to reduce the pressure on citizens by lever-aging domestic energy sources like natural gas to create a more sustainable cost – effective trans-portation system. Osifeso further noted that from just seven conversion centres, the country now has 265 centres nationwide, which had invariably created over 10, 000 direct jobs and growth from 20 to 60 operational refuelling stations. He praised the CNG pro-gramme for slashing opera-tional costs for transporters and urged Nigerians to support President Tinubu’s broader en-ergy transition plan and renew-able energy vision. “The programme is part of a broader national strategy to reduce transport and food pric-es while improving household incomes and one can see that public awareness that was ini-tially low has greatly improved as Nigerians are now embrac-ing CNG across the country as witnessed by a growing level of private sector participation with Dangote Group’s recent rollout of 4,000 CNG trucks as a testa-ment to industry confidence in the programme,” he said.