Omon-Julius Onabu
26 October 2009
Warri — The Senate has expressed its determination to ensure that flour mills live up to Federal Government's expectations regarding local content and would ensure that they are protected from unhealthy operating environment.
Chairman, Senate Committee on Industries, Senator Kamorudeen Adedibu, gave the assurance while inspecting facilities at the factory of a leading indigenous company, Mix and Bake Flour Mill Industries located within the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Warri.
Adedibu said the committee would impress it on the lawmakers the need to address the acute shortage of cassava flour, which is required by the mills for the mandatory five per cent inclusion in wheat flour production, and check the indiscriminate dumping of substandard imported flour.
Leading the committee in continuation of its fact-finding visits to local flour mills in the country, primarily to know their level of adherence to industrial and health and nutritional standards, Adedibu said the visit to the Warri factory, like the rest across thecountry, would enable the Senate determine the level of compliance by the flour mills, to the Federal Government's directive on cassava.
Adedibu, who was conducted round the production lines as well as the packaging and storage facilities at the factory by an Executive Director of the company, Ambassador Theophilus A.B. Shodipo, whorepresented the Managing Director, Chief Maan Lababidi, said he was amazed at the information gathered after visits to three flour mills so far.
"I must say our visit to two or three flour mills have been quite revealing. Much of the information we have received so far were unknown to us at the Senate before now; so, I believe the committee made a good decision to embark on this fact-finding mission."
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