President Muhammadu Buhari said on Thursday the Ajaokuta Steel Complex would generate $ 1.6 billion annually and provide 500,000 jobs for Nigerian youths.<\/p>\n
The president, according to a statement issued by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, stated this at the Palace of the Ohinoyi of Ebiraland.<\/p>\n
Buhari, who was in Kogi on a one-day visit, commissioned the Agassa-Ogboboro Road and the Ohinoyi of Ebiraland Palace.<\/p>\n
He also commissioned the 300-bed Reference Hospital in Okene, and later inspected the medical facility that houses the Sigma-Prime Magnetic Resonance Imaging Machine, CT Scan, and other world-class medical equipment.<\/p>\n
The president reaffirmed his administration\u2019s readiness to position Kogi as an industrial hub as well as a solid mineral power base.<\/p>\n
He explained how the Federal Government resolved all legal entanglements that had bogged down the progress of the Ajaokuta Steel Complex.<\/p>\n
Buhari said: \u201cNo other single project holds the key to unlocking this vast potential as much as the Ajaokuta Steel Complex, which we inherited as a long moribund complex strangulating under a tangle of local and international commercial disputes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am glad to report that as we begin to round off in the office, we can genuinely say that our administration has rescued Ajaokuta from all legal disabilities.<\/p>\n
\u201dIt is now ready for concessioning to a private investor with the right profiles to put it to work for Nigeria in general and Kogi in particular.<\/p>\n
\u201dThe process has cost this Federal Government over $400million so far, but I consider it money well spent as we move closer to achieving our objective of transforming Kogi State into Nigeria\u2019s iron and steel powerhouse.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe benefits of getting Ajaokuta Steel Complex working again are numerous. It would provide over 500,000 estimated jobs and more than $1.6 billion in annual income to the Nigerian economy.<\/p>\n
\u201cNigerians can rest assured that I remain committed to seeing this process to a logical conclusion before the end of my tenure in office.\u201d<\/p>\n
He insisted that the All Progressives Congress (APC) had delivered on its promises to Nigerians at all levels.<\/p>\n
He said Governor Yahaya Bello had performed creditably in his two terms as governor of the state.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are an administration that prides ourselves in the fulfillment of our electoral promises to the Nigerian people, at both national and sub-national levels.<\/p>\n
\u201dThis is why I am glad that we have an impressive array of legacy projects through your own state government as proof of our stewardship of Kogi.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe APC Administration has indelible footprints in Kogi,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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