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The legislator representing Ogun East Senatorial District astatine the National Assembly (NASS), Otunba Daniel, has disclosed that the national authorities volition soon commence mining and exploration of bitumen successful Ogun State.
This is conscionable arsenic Daniel, a erstwhile politician of the state, passionately urged the incumbent governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, to actualise the Olokola Deep Sea Port task astatine Ode—Omi assemblage successful Ogun Waterside section authorities area, which his medication initiated betwixt 2003 and 2011.
Daniel stated these portion addressing a mammoth assemblage of governmental stakeholders, supporters and constituents astatine Idokunnusi Ijebu Imushin successful continuation of his Midterm Community Assessment and Review Tour successful Ijebu East Local Government, wherever respective members of his constituents were empowered with items which included motorcycles, heavy freezers, sewing machines, fertilizers, sprayers, grinding instrumentality among others to enactment their means of livelihood.
Harping connected bitumen mining and exploration, Daniel explained that erstwhile started, the project, on with the Deep Sea Port, would summation the economical prosperity and positively interaction the lives of the state’s people, peculiarly astatine a clip erstwhile the radical are agitating for the instauration of the Ijebu State.
He said the project, if executed by the authorities government, has the imaginable to make implicit 50,000 jobs, standard up the state’s Internally Generated Revenue base, and alteration the socioeconomic beingness of the people.
The erstwhile politician maintained that the Ministry of Solid Minerals Development is acceptable to statesman mining mineral resources soon.
He informed his constituents that the Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Dele Alake, assured him that the bitumen wealthiness of Ijebu East volition soon beryllium enactment to productive usage successful enactment with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
“During my clip arsenic politician of Ogun State, we discovered that Ogun East has the largest deposit of Bitumen anyplace successful Nigeria. Our imaginativeness past was evident: to make a full caller metropolis for Bitumen mining and exploration, which we judge would summation economical prosperity and positively interaction the lives of the radical successful the area. We envisioned this country bubbling with multinational investments, industries, jobs, and infrastructure, each driven by bitumen exploration and processing.
“I americium successful interaction with, and delighted to pass you that the Ministry of Solid Minerals Development, nether the exceptional enactment of my person and brother, Mr Dele Alake, and successful enactment with the Renewed Hope Agenda of President Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, has assured that the bitumen wealthiness of Ijebu East volition soon beryllium enactment to productive use. I person each assurance successful that assurance due to the fact that Dele Alake is not lone a trusted workfellow and person of implicit 4 decades but a antheral of results”, Daniel stated.
The legislator expressed content that the national authorities volition fulfil its committedness connected the bitumen exploration successful Ogun East, emphasising that the mining assemblage nether President Tinubu has received greater attention, with the gross from the coagulated minerals assemblage increasing from ₦6 cardinal to ₦38 cardinal successful conscionable 1 year.
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