The groundbreaking ceremony of a $2 billion (about N300
billion) fertilizer plant, the biggest in Africa to be sited in Agenebode, Edo
State will be done before the end of January, next year.
Disclosing
this at a reception, in Benin City, Monday, as part of activities to mark the 2nd term
inauguration of Governor Adams Oshiomhole, President of Dangote Group,
Alhaji Aliko Dangote, said arrangements have been concluded for the ceremony
this December or before the end of January 2013.
Alhaji
Dangote, listed by Forbes magazine as Africa’s richest man said the company
which is expected to employ more than ten thousand people directly and
indirectly will be completed in three years.
He
said: “yes we will build the biggest fertilizer plant in Africa here in Edo
State.”
According
to the industrialist, “Comrade Oshiomhole has delivered on road,
infrastructure, but now he’s going to deliver on job creation. We will partner
with him to make sure he gives us a conducive environment to create jobs here
in Edo State.
“He
has already mentioned that we will set up a fertiliser plant here in Edo State.
I am sure he wants me to reaffirm that, yes, we will build the biggest
fertilizer plant in Africa here in Edo State.
“It is
a commitment and I am reassuring you, your excellency, by this year, either in
December of January, next year, we will perform the groundbreaking ceremony in
Edo State. It will be at a cost of $2 billion.
“I am
reassuring you, in the presence of everybody, that in the next three years, Edo
State will be exporting fertilizer from here to other parts of Africa.”
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