Plans have been concluded to construct a gas pipeline to address power supply challenges in Lagos state.
President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, disclosed this during a courtesy visit to the office of the Lagos state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode on Wednesday.
“We are going to do a gas pipeline from Bonny (River state) to pass under the sea (to Lagos.) When it is completed, Lagos state will never ever experience blackout. There will be electricity 24 hours a day.”
Addressing newsmen, Dangote disclosed there is an ongoing construction of the largest fertilizer plant of two to three million tonnes of Uranium and Ammonia in the Lekki Free Trade Zone, Ibeju-Lekki.
He noted that the company is also building ”the largest ever single refinery of 650,000 barrels per day, which is by far more than the consumption of Nigeria and that would satisfy our consumption at least for the next seven to 10 years by the time we finish.”
‘’We will have a challenge in getting people to work there, because at the height of it, there will be close to 38,000 people working at the same location. This is something that we have to partner with the state government on.
‘’Having 38,000 people on one site, not every one of them will be from the community, others will be from other states, there would be cultural issues and all that, we need to integrate everybody to ensure that the whole thing works out fine.”
He stressed that the visit afforded him the opportunity to assure the governor of his commitment to complete these ongoing projects already embarked upon by the company.
The business mogul promised to continue to support the state government initiatives geared towards securing lives and properties, adding “I have assured him that we really love doing business here. It’s a friendly state for doing business.”
According to him, “There are quite a lot of things that will come along with creating so many jobs. I think Lagos will be one of the fastest growing cities in Nigeria and Africa as a whole.”
