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Benue Cement Budgets N350m For Host Community By Terna Doki, Correspondent, MakurdiMbayion community in Gboko Local Government Area of the Benue State, which hosts Benue Cement Company (BCC) PLC, will enjoy a number facilitates and projects from a N350 million social responsibility budget by the company for the development of the area. Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, disclosed the package in Makurdi while fielding questions from reporters after a meeting with the state governor, Gabriel Suswam, at Government House. The people of Mbayion recently took to the streets to protest what they called poor community relations of the company and alleged neglect of the host community by the Dangote Group of Companies, which took over the management of BCC as a result of the federal government's privatisation policy. Dangote listed award of scholarship to indigenes of Mbayion, development of infrastructural facilities, and other empowerment initiatives as some of the projects in the pipeline for the host community. He added that Benue State would always take precedence in the company's development activities in order to create room for stability in the factory's environment. He said, "Of course, we are aware of the agitation for infrastructural development as well as empowerment of the people of the area. But you should understand as well that since we took over we had to totally rehabilitate the factory to modern standards so as to put an end to pollution and to improve on production. So now that we have gone this far, we should be able to sit down now and plan on how to go about their yearnings which for sure would impact positively on them."
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