BENIN CITY - Over N10 billion has so far been invested into the Nigerian economy by Guinness Nigeria Plc., in the last ten years.
The Chairman, Board of Directors of the Company, Engr. Ralph Alabi (OON), disclosed this yesterday when he led members of the Board of Directors of the organisation to pay a courtesy call on Edo State Governor, at Government House, Benin City yesterday.
Engr. Alabi further said that the establishment had since inception provided pipe-borne water for over 50,000 people in the state, adding that the company hopes to increase this number to about 250,000 that would benefit from its water scheme in the next couple of months.
Responding, the State Governor, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole commended the company for demonstrating true partnership in the Nigerian economy.
While appreciating the company’s confidence in the Nigeria economy, Comrade Oshiomhole further commended the organisation for complementing government’s effort in areas of employment and provision of social amenities to its host communities.
Comrade Oshiomhole also stated that what Nigeria needed now was to actively engage the private sector even as he (Governor) promised to visit the company so that he could sit side-by-side with the management with a view to knowing what the state government was expected to do which it had not been doing before now, to assist the company to eradicate poverty from the state.
He therefore urged the company to collaborate with the state government with a view to creating more jobs and other social needs for the people, stressing that his coming to government was not to lament the mistakes of the past but to seek how best to take the state to its enviable position in order to wipe out poverty from the land.
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