Why Kaduna State Is Business Friendly – Greenville LNG
Greenville LNG has ascribed the business-friendly situation in Kaduna State to Governor Uba Sani’s well-rounded socio-political and economic management experience.
The company which is Nigeria’s leading domestic gas infrastructure development, gas liquefaction and distribution company, noted that with the clearly focused governance provided by the Governor, Kaduna State’s economic and industrial renaissance is well vested with a very proactive, purposeful, revivalist and developmental trajectory headed for good success.
The Greenville LNG which stated these when a delegation of its management led by the company’s Director of Inter-governmental relations, Alhaji Zubairu Ibrahim Bayi paid a visit to Governor Sani last Friday, thanked the Governor, the State Government and the good people of Kaduna State for the friendly cooperation and supportive disposition towards the company since the company’s pioneering gas delivery, expansion and utilisation investments as well as its sister company’s (Gradient Bitumen’s) superior polymer-enhanced and super-grade bitumen production and distribution investments located in the State.
Bayi particularly commended Sani, his executive Council and the people of Kaduna State for providing a progressively conducive and safe environment for Greenville LNG to work in the State,
Bayi said; “…Your Excellency, since the advent of Greenville LNG Company Limited in Kaduna State, and the commissioning of its huge LNG and CNG Hub Station and ancillary workshops, and first-of-its-kind Drivers’ Training Academy in Kakau, Kaduna in October last year, the company has not experienced any incidents of beach of the peace.
“Your Excellency, we can ascribe this healthy situation to your effective leadership of the State, and we sincerely thank you for your worthy efforts and credible governance”.
Bayi noted that during the construction of the Greenville LNG facilities in Kaduna, the company engaged over 500 workers amongst whom were over 250 Kaduna indigenes.
He further said; “Your Excellency, with the acquisition of additional hectares of land for our superior quality Gradient Polymer and Bitumen plant in Kaduna, we are set to also generate even more employment for more of the hardworking and productive people of Kaduna State”.
Greenville LNG’s investments across Nigeria, according to Bayi, also seek to assist its host states to embark on prudent and commercially viable independent power generation projects as it also projects to enhance internally generated revenue to further assist its host states to develop more of their needed infrastructure.
Greenville LNG, Bayi said, seeks the continued support of the Kaduna State Government and its people in the company’s determination to provide readily available, cleaner, environmentally friendly, more affordable and more sustainable energy, and superior bitumen offerings as well as employment for Kaduna’s industrial renaissance and progressive development.
In his response, Governor Sani thanked the Greenville LNG corporation for its well vested business interest in Kaduna State, saying; “there is an inescapable nexus between effective leadership, a conducive and business-friendly environment and successful investment promotion.”
Sani said that his administration remain committed to creating and sustaining a conducive environment that makes Kaduna State every serious investor’s destination of choice in Nigeria.
The Governor described Greenville LNG’s presence in Kaduna State as ‘positively historic’, and informed the company’s delegation that the State Government has indeed purchased and brought into the country a good number of CNG transportation buses in pursuit of the State Government’s gas expansion and utilisation agenda.
Sani commended Greenville for its advent and expansion of its business investments in Kaduna State and requested that the company expand its operations across the length and breadth of Kaduna state and help to generate employment for more people across the state.
Sani promised to committedly do all in his power and office to provide every lawful support and encouragement to attract and sustain businesses invested in Kaduna State such as Greenville LNG and Gradient Bitumen and prayed for the success of Greenville LNG’s businesses in Kaduna State.
The Kaduna State Government’s team that accompanied Governor Sani to the meeting with Greenville LNG included, the Secretary to the State Government (SSG) Dr Abdulkadir Muazu Maiyere; Special Adviser to the Governor on Economic Matters, Alhaji Ibrahim Tanko Mohammed; the Hon. Commissioner for Agriculture, Murtala Dabo; Special Adviser, Investment Promotion, Sabiu Sani; Executive Secretary, Kaduna Investment Promotion Agency, Sadiq Mohammed; General Manager, Kaduna Agriculture Development Agency, Muhammad Rili, the Deputy Chief of Staff, Legal and Legislative Matters Kaduna State Government, Dr. Mustapha Musa.
The Greenville LNG delegation also included Sajit Pillai and Nilanjan Chikraborty of Gradient Bitumen; Tusha Shirore of the LNG team, Hamza Saidu of Greenville’s IT works, and the company’s head of Communications, Media, PR and Strategic Liaison, Prince Moses G. Duku.
