How does the Nigerian government prioritize energy policy issues and legislation?
It’s actually them (the federal government) that are promoting the use of LPG. However, the government must also help with money [i.e.: subsidies]. They need to assist women and families with their first purchase of gas supply. We need them to establish a bank where women can borrow a bit of money [i.e. microfinance]. Many of them are already part of cooperatives, so they can vouch for each other to make this purchase. It’s clear that the government will not be able to supply 40 million women with a free gas. Do you believe there is a need for a biomass stove/kiln program to complement LPGs? We’ve done two or three projects with biomass stoves on a mini-industrial scale. In Lagos the project did not go down very well. We had two plants within a co-operative and the whole community was involved, so they saved a lot of wood. We considered it a great success. However, when residential and commercial development eventually reached the plant, the government decided to demolish it, along wit
