The Kano State House of Assembly has initiated a legislative process to repeal the State Fire Service Directorate Edict No 17 of 1970, to regulate operations of cooking gas retailers in Kano metropolis.
The legislation seeks to insert a section to regulate indiscriminate sales of Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), otherwise called cooking gas, in the metropolis.
This followed the adoption of a report by the House Standing Committee on Special Duties during the plenary presided by the Speaker, Ismail Falgore.
The committee had probed indiscriminate sales of cooking gas within residential areas in Kano metropolis.
The Chairman of the committee, Abdullahi Yahaya (NNPP – Gezawa constituency), said the Kano State Fire Service Directorate reported about 475 illegal cooking gas outlets after engaging with relevant stakeholders.
He said that statistics of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), showed that there were 234 unlicensed natural gas retailers in the state