The Senate on Wednesday rejected a bill that sought to phase out the use of petrol cars and introduce electric cars in Nigeria by the year 2035.
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The bill was sponsored by Sen Ben Murray-Bruce (PDP, Bayelsa). The senator told his colleagues that combustion cars were causing pollution and contribute to global warming and that developed countries were gradually phasing them out.
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However, the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, while kicking against the bill, said it would affect Nigeria’s economy as an oil producing country.
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“We cannot sit here as a parliament and do a legislation to encourage something that will kill our own business as a nation. Besides, in economic sense, we are an oil producing country. .
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So, we should do everything possible to frustrate the sale of electric cars in Nigeria to enable us to sell our oil.” he said. In the end, Murray-Bruce was advised to withdraw the bill, which he later did.

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