By Olusegun Folarin
About three hundred and forty-nine, 349, residents of various communities around Dangote Cement Company, Ibese, Ogun State have received economic supports to improve their well-being as part of the company’s Corporate Social Responsibility to the host communities.
The Empowerment initiative unveiled during the 2023 Ibese Community Day celebration in the town featured the provision of scholarships 219 students in different Tertiary Institutions and Secondary Schools.
The event also featured the distribution of weeding machines to 50 farmers while freezers were given to another set of 50 Women apart from 30 youths who got got startup kits for different vocations on which they had earlier been trained.
Addressing the gathering, the Plant Director, Dangote Cement Plc, Ibese Plant, Mr. Nawabuddin Azad said the beneficiaries were drawn from seventeen communities in Ibese, Yewa North local government area of the state for the empowerment as part of the company’s contributions towards reducing unemployment in the country.
Mr Azad explained that, the company had also embarked on 23 social investment projects and revamped 10 other nonfunctional CSR projects across the seventeen host communities.
In a remark, the Commissioner for Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Adebola Sofela, represented by the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Dr Olu – Ola Aikulola described the gesture of Dangote cement as a good way of promoting Industrial peace with the host communities.
Also, The Aboro of Ibeseland, Oba Rotimi Mulero urged the company to sustain the gesture and prioritize youth employment in further initiatives while advising beneficiaries of the various empower programmes to make judicious use of the items.
Some of the beneficiaries who spoke with journalists commended Dangote Cement company for the help and promised to utilize items in adding value to the society.
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