Addax provides N9. 4 million water facility in Imo, promises sustained service
From Charles Ogugbuaja, Owerri
TO continue to improve cordial relationship between it and host communities, the Managing Director of Addax Petroleum Development Nigeria Limited (APDL), Mr. Martin Eldon has said that the company would continue to maintain the existing relationship between it and all host communities where it operates.
Eldon disclosed this at the weekend while commissioning 340 feet depth bore hole with two steel towers Geepee 5,000 litters overhead tank and 65 KVA Perkins engine electricity generator built for the Child Care Centre (CCC), Umuoba, Uratta, Owerri North, Imo State at a total cost of N9.46 million.
He noted that the social responsibility adopted by the company had paid-off, stressing that the management required same symbiotic relationship from the benefiting companies.
Eldon, who was accompanied by the Managing Director New Ventures, Mr. Less Blair and other top management staff of the company said the project was constructed 45 kilometers from Izombe where there is a flow station, stressing that it was because of the non profit, charitable and necessary service the center offered poor people in society, urging them to utilise the project well.
In his speech, the Governor of Imo State, Chief Achike Udenwa who was represented by the Commissioner for Petroleum and Environment, Chief Nnachebe Ojike noted that Addax had since it started operations in Imo in 1998 built solid corporate responsibility within the communities it operates in Oguta council. He noted the projects it had provide for the people of Eziorsu, Izombe as asphalt roads, water, electricity, science laboratory, classrooms and scholarships, employment and youth empowerment programmes.
While urging CCC management to utilise the water project well, he urged Addax to assist in rehabilitating 850- meter access road to General Hospital, Arondizuogu, Ideator North.
The director of the center, Monsignor Richard Onwuanibe thanked Addax for the gesture, asking for assistance in diesel and equipping science laboratory for the institution.
The director, who was represented by an Assistant Director in the center, Rev. Fr. Stephen Unamba promised to judiciously handle the project well.
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