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steel company will soon start production- Senator
Sen. Ahmed
Ogembe (PDP,Kogi Central), has expressed optimism that the moribund Ajaokuta
Steel Complex would soon be revived.
The News
Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the firm, established about 40 years ago,
has yet to resume production of steel,
with successful administrations not able to agree over whether to use the blast
furnace technology or change it.
Promises by
various governments to resuscitate the firm into full activity had always come
to nought.
But Ogembe,
at a meeting with Ebira People’s Assembly, on Thursday in Lokoja, gave an
assurance that the firm would be brought to life.
“We are
doing everything possible to make sure that the company comes back to life.
“We shall
not rest until this objective is achieved,” a statement by Ogembe’s media Aide,
Mr Yemi Duke, quoted the senator as saying.
At the
meeting, which was attended by members of the House of Representatives from the
constituency, the senator also expressed determinations to secure projects that
would improve the living conditions of his people.
He said that
he was working with those concerned toward the completion of the Ekuku and
Osara dams, noting that the lingering shortage of water would become a thing of
the past if they became functional.
Ogembe
commended Gov. Yahaya Bello’s efforts toward improving the security situation
in Kogi, and urged him to sustain the tempo so as to rid the state of criminal
elements.
Earlier, the
president of EPA, Dr. Abdulrahman Adeiza, had lauded the law makers’ efforts
toward a better Egbira land, and pledged the constituents’ support for the
success of such efforts.
He also
commended their spirit of togetherness in spite of their political differences.
National
Assembly lawmakers at the meeting included Tijani Damisa, Ahmed Lawal, Kabiru
Ajana, among others. (NAN)
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