Host communities commend Dangote refinery’s initiatives

Traditional rulers and community leaders from host communities in the Ibeju-Lekki Free Trade Zone in Lagos, have commended Dangote Oil Refinery Company (DORC) for providing communal infrastructure for their communities

The monarchs issued the commendation at a stakeholder parley in Lagos, with the management of DORC.

The latter, however, commended Dangote Industries Limited, its parent company, for partnering them on various Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives for the development of its host communities in the Lekki Free Trade Zone.

Speaking at the event, the Imobido Community head, Chief Jegede Lateef, commended the company for citing its refinery and petrochemical plants in the community.

“We appreciate Dangote Industries for its decision to establish a refinery and petrochemical plants in our communities and we believe that the company’s investment will contribute to the development of the community. Dangote is welcome to do his business in our communities and we are fully ready to cooperate with him,” he said.

He urged the company to ensure that the various investments translate to infrastructural development and employment opportunities for members of the host communities.

Also, the Head of Tiye Community, Chief Adewale Salami, commended DORC for the various completed and ongoing projects, promised that the community would at all times provide an enabling environment for the investment to thrive.

He said the company has done well in enhancing the welfare of host communities and urged it not to relent in its efforts to ensure that jobs are provided for qualified graduates who are indigenes of Lekki Free Trade Zone.

Also at the parley, which took place after a guided tour of the Dangote Refinery, Fertilizer and Jetty, were leaders of all the communities around the project site, including Idasho, Ilekuru, Okeyanta, Magbo-Segun, Okesegun, Itoke, Idotun, Alasia, Okunraiye and Lekki town.

The Group Executive Director, Dangote Industries Limited, Devakumar Edwin, who received the group, expressed the company’s commitment to the execution of more community development projects, particularly those that would improve the host communities.