9 November 2009
Lagos — Nigerian Gas Company (NGC), a subsidiary of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has appealed to its host Communities in Kogi State, to provide a safe and conducive environment for all its operations and urged them to take NGC business as their own.
Speaking in Lokoja, at a one day workshop organised by the company, to sensitise its host communities on the benefits and dangers of natural gas, weekend, NGC's Managing Director, Saidu Mohammed, said as a socially responsible organisation whose community relations philosophy sees its host communities as partners, desires that they buy into its business challenges.
He said NGC has a pipeline network of about 1500 kilometers and 22 metering stations spread across nine states of the federation, including Delta, Edo, Rivers, Abia, Akwa Ibom and Ondo, as well as Ogun, Kogi and Lagos states, adding that NGC believes in the development of its host communities.
Mohammed, represented by Director of the Company's Northern Operations, Kehinde Saka, said NGC's business transverses over 170 communities in the nine states, adding that one of the objectives of the workshop is to provide a platform for the company to jointly work out an effective and sustainable relationship between the NGC and the good people of Kogi State.
Aknowledging the supportive roles some of the company's host communities in Kogi State have played, as well as their cooperation with NGC'S operations in their various domains, he solicited for the continued support of the communities by ensuring they provide a safe and conducive environment for all NGC operations and assured that the company would always reciprocate such kind gestures within its capability and limited financial resources.
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