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NCDMB Praises Dangote’s Local Content Usage

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) praised the management of Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemical Free Trade Zone Enterprises (DPRP) over its adherence to the local content law in the execution of its projects and declared its intention to further partner with it for effective implementation of the Local Content policy in the country.

Director, Monitoring & Evaluation, NCDMB, Akintunde Adelana, who represented the board’s Executive Secretary, Engr. SimbiWabote, made this disclosure during the DPRP Nigerian Content Sensitization/Awareness Creation Program, titled: “Let’s Walk the Nigerian Content Talk Together,” at Lekki Free Trade Zone, Lagos.

According to Wabote’s speech, the refinery is expected to “close a major gap in the supply of petroleum products in the country.”

He went on to say, “We consider this as a very important project and we are willing to partner with the company to ensure full implementation of the local content policy. We embarked on this journey with the company a long time ago and we are ready to partner with the Dangote Group.

“Part of what you see to today is part of our efforts to ensure that the company and its contractors comply with the local content policy and they have put in a lot of efforts in this regard.”

Speaking further, Wabote described the Local Content Act as asignificant cornerstone of value added to, or created in the Nigerian economy. He said the country recorded loses prior to the enactment of the local content policy, which he noted, came from jobs executed abroad by foreign operators working in the country.

“The narrative then was that nothing can be done in-country. Plants and modules were fully fabricated offshore without any structure in place to achieve knowledge transfer. Before 2010, we had no active dry-dock facilities. The few we had were abandoned and left to rot away. Today, we have four active dry docking facilities in Port Harcourt, Onne, and Lagos,” he added


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