Restructuring the transport sector.

With over one million square miles of land mass and less than two hundred thousand kilometres of motorable roads as well as Nigeria' gas reserves pegged at over one hundred and eighty nine billion cubic feet, experts have

advocated for the need to implement lasting policies and framework that would encourage a more affordable public transportation system.

Speaking at a stakeholders workshop on road transport management and mass transit operations in Nigeria, representative of the Nigeria Gas Company limited, Michael Arinze said there must be government policies to encourage the growth of compressed Natural Gas, CNG in Nigeria to challenge the prevalence of petrol for it's cost effectiveness and clean nature.

However, Arinze is of the opinion that the proliferation of CNG would also create employment for Nigeria's teaming youth.

In his keynote address, chairman of the occasion and emir of kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi while lamenting the absence of motorable roads in both rural and urban areas, called on the government to take charge of the transportation sector adding that safe and comfortable transportation is a fundamental human right.

Minister of transport, Rotimi Ameachi said the stakeholders workshop was organised in order to develop working documents on policy and strategies in line with government's vision for the transport sector.

Experts say Nigeria's gas reserves will last for the next one hundred years.

Meanwhile, a five hundred billion naira world bank grant is needed annually for the maintenance of the existing roads for the next ten years.