The Federal Government has begun deploying 100 electric mass transit buses for federal civil servants.

It has also taken delivery of the first batch of electric vehicles (EVs) promised to workers, as part of a broader push to cut transportation costs and promote cleaner energy use across the country.

The first batch of 37 buses was commissioned yesterday at Eagle Square, Abuja, by the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Mrs Didi Esther Walson-Jack, under the Federal Civil Service Electric Mass Transit Programme. The initiative, approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) under the Renewed Hope Mass Transit Scheme, is meant to provide federal workers with safer, more affordable and reliable transportation along designated routes within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Separately, the Director-General, National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), Oluwemimo Joseph Osanipin, who disclosed that the government had taken delivery of the first batch of EVs promised to civil servants, described it as the beginning of a wider rollout under the administration’s clean energy transportation drive.

He spoke while briefing journalists after meeting President Bola Ahmed Tinubu at the State House.

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