Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board assures host communities of empowerment
The management of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), has assured host communities where it operates of its commitment towards supporting and empowering the identified communities.
Penpushing reports that General Manager, Corporate Communications, Ginah Ginah, made this known during a media tour of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Park Scheme (NOGaPS), at Emeyah 1 Community in Ogbia Local Government Area of Bayelsa State.
The General Manager explained that the aim was to further promote peaceful co-existence and fast track development in rural areas, adding that the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), at its construction sites of all the oil and gas parks, engage the host communities in so many positive areas.
‘As part of our CSR policy, we continually seek to support and empower our host communities. At the construction sites of all our oil and gas parks, we engage the host communities in so many positive areas’.
‘Here in NOGaPS, they supply sands, granites and other raw materials needed by us that are equally available for use. However, all the materials they supply must go through proper quality control measures before being accepted,” he stated.
Penpushing further reports that, Ginah explained to members of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) touring with him that Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) landmark projects were helping immensely to develop and reposition host communities in Niger Delta.
The company boss added that the desire and decision to positively assist and render support to host communities, especially those in the Niger Delta region, was for the greater good of the country, noting need for support and cooperation to succeed in the communities
‘We need their support and co-operation to succeed in their territory. It’s a mutually beneficial relationship. Our six-lane road project powered by SUKUK, is currently under construction within this community’.
‘When completed, it will be a major access road linking NOGaPS to the rest of Bayelsa and even beyond. It will further open up the communities and bring more development that will be beneficial to the people’.
‘We are also building an international hotel beside our headquarters here in Bayelsa. When completed also, it will bring huge employment opportunities and further fast track development’, the manager emphasised.
Meanwhile, the multi-billion Nigerian Oil and Gas Park Scheme (NOGaPS) Emeyah 1 scheme, which sits on 24 hectares of land, is billed for commissioning in the last quarter of 2023.
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