by Oge Okonkwo
The President of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, stated that about 8,000 engineers would be needed for an effective start of the nine- billion- dollar Dangote Refinery/Fertiliser plant located in Ondo.
He made this statement while speaking to state house correspondents on Wednesday in Abuja, saying that the project would provide direct and indirect jobs for 85,000 Nigerians when it is completed.
According to Dangote, he said production in the plant will begin in the next three years and end importation of petroleum products by the year 2016.
Vanguard News reports:
He said the group had secured a 3.3 billion-dollar credit facility from a consortium of banks for the project.
He said his plan was to make the country self-reliant in petrochemical and petroleum products, as well as make it an industrial giant.
“Now, Nigeria is going to be taken out of the list of countries that import petroleum products. We will produce 20 million metric tonnes which is equivalent to what Nigeria consumes currently.
“Today, we did the signing ceremony, the vice-president came to witness the signing but we insisted on coming to thank Mr president for his policies .
“Without good government policies, there is no way the private sector can invest in Nigeria, because we are not Father Christmas at all. The policies have to be right,’’ he said.
According to Dangote, Nigeria currently spends about 30 billion dollars annually on importation of petroleum products.
He said the complex planned by his group would make Nigeria a net exporter of petroleum products, including diesel and aviation fuel, as well as poly-propylene and fertiliser.
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