“Cooking with firewood, and charcoal is equivalent to smoking 20 packages of cigarettes the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Gas 360, Emmanuel Uwandu said penultimate Friday.
It’s also considered to have caused the death of 98,000 Nigerian women in 774 local government areas in Nigeria that translates to about 2,700 deaths annually with about 21,000 known to die in the Niger Delta alone.
He stated this in his keynote presentation during the 20,000 metric tonnes of Liquified Petroleum Gas Depot Project ceremony organised by Windek Energy Limited held at Atabrikang Aquaha Ibeno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State Nigeria.
While noting that cooking with ‘dirty’ fuel is the highest killer, Uwandu lamented that attention is given to malaria and HIV Aids while nobody is talking about dirty fuel.
Globally, he said, 4.6bn dollars was provided to fight against malaria and HIV for Nigeria but clean cooking receives less than 200 million dollars, demanding more needs to be done to avert a catastrophe.
He called on Nigerian governments both at the national and sub-national levels to unlock global opportunities for clean cooking and move our communities away from dirty fuel to clean energy sources for cooking.