Dangote injects N50bn into Gboko cement plant

Posted by admin Headlines Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

Dangote Cement Plc has pumped a fresh N50billion into its Gboko Plant, while creating almost 1,000 new permanent jobs, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Shree Junnarkar has said.

Junnarkar, who spoke over the weekend at the factory, added that the company had raised its annual production to 3.5million tons and planned to hit four million tons next year.

With four million tons in Gboko, about 10million in Obajana, six million in Ibese, the Dangote cement production is expected to hit about 20 million tons next year.
“We are expanding the company and aiming at four million tons capacity. The ongoing project would be completed by the first quarter of next year,” Junnarkar said.

He said since the company was acquired by the Dangote industries, it had introduced modern and sophisticated technology in the running of its factories.
The 1,000 staff would add up to the over 25,000 workforce on the pay roll of the West Africa’s giant conglomerate-The Dangote Group.
The group had taken delivery of 5,000 trucks in its bid to crash cement prices in Nigeria, an exercise that created 15,000 additional jobs.

The group’s Savannah Sugar Company Limited (SSCL), with staff strength of almost 7,000, is the second largest employer of labour in Adamawa State. The Dangote’s Obajana cement factory also has about 2,500 permanent staff.
Speaking also, General Manager in charge of Human Capital Management of the Gboko factory, Mr. Marcus Jeremiah said of the 1,000 permanent staff employed, 780 are Nigerians and the remaining are expatriates.
He said of the 30 management staff, 22 are from the local community of Gboko.
He said 74 per cent of the total staff working in Gboko plant are from Benue State, and 56 per cent of this figure are from the Gboko community.

Jeremiah said the company had also boosted its corporate social responsibilities around the local communities.
He said the Gboko plant had spent a whopping N140million in the electrification of communities around the factory.
According to him, the company also gave an annual education scholarship of over N10million to students from the community.

The company, he said had also provided over 23 boreholes to the communities.
Other social responsibility efforts include a monthly N1.8million security fee paid to the community, construction of 14 blocks of classrooms, as well as the construction of dam, among others.

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