Dangote Cement Plc, Gboko Plant, in Benue Converse, has better than doubled its bursary payments to the host communities.
This used to be disclosed by the acting plant director, Murusamy Murugan during the presentation of the 2024 Dangote scholarship to the host neighborhood thru the management of the Yion Clan Foundation and the Yion Weak Council at Gboko plant on Tuesday(31/12/2024).
Engr Murugan said that the upward overview of the bursary will possible be efficient this three hundred and sixty five days 2025.
“Over the final years, there possess been calls from the Mbayion other folks for upward overview of this quantity and I’m cosy to inform you that this has been reviewed upwards to 22, 800 naira with enact from 2025. It’s our expectation that it’d be judiciously frail for folk that advantage it.
“We shall continue to do our best and collaborate with the community and other stakeholders to provide more community projects in line with our Community Development Agreement and Corporate Social Responsibility policy whenever funds are available, ” he said.
The Mue Ter Gboko His Royal Highness Ikpa Ahua thanked the Dangote Industries Restricted for acceding to the plea of the neighborhood for an upward overview of the bursary.
The monarch reaffirmed the neighborhood’s dedication to maintaining a formidable and cordial relationship with the firm.
He said that quite a lot of little children of the host neighborhood are gainfully employed by the firm, earning their livelihoods.
Subsequently, he stated, it’d be unwise not to withhold the existing harmonious bond between the neighborhood and the firm.
In the same trend, the president Yion Construction Association (YIDA) Comrade Orver Yongu lauded the firm for their imprint of dedication to the host neighborhood.
He further extended the appreciation of the neighborhood for the perfect financial enhance by the firm on the Yion Day social gathering which used to be not too prolonged in the past held at Ihungwanor in Gboko.
Outgoing deputy accepted manager, Social Performance Division, Dr. Eugene Ivase, assured the host neighborhood of the continued dedication of the firm to their welfare.
“We want to state that we take whatever you say here seriously. From henceforth, things will only get better. We however still solicit for the continued cooperation of the traditional rulers and elders of the community,” said Dr. Ivase.
