Lokoja – Members of the House Representatives Committees on Federal Road Safety Corps and Solid Minerals Development have applauded Dangote Coal Mines Limited on the impact of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) projects in its host communities.
The lawmakers endorsed the company’s social investment strides on Thursday during a fact-finding visit to the Dangote Coal Mines Limited sites at Ankpa , Kogi State.
The Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Federal Road Safety Commission, Hon Akinfolarin Mayowa Samuel, said his committee was satisfied with the performance and the relationship between the Dangote Coal Mines and its host communities.
The House of Representatives committees on the Federal Road Safety Commission and its counterpart, the Committee on Solid Minerals Development had visited the Dangote Coal Mines Limited in Ankpa on a fact-finding mission to authenticate the outcome of an Interactive Session held earlier at the National Assembly in October.
The committee on Road Safety had at the Interactive Session given the company a clean bill of health, saying its various innovations and collaboration with the Federal Road Safety Corps had helped to bring down the rate of auto crashes in the country.
During Thursday’s visit, Hon Samuel said: “We are satisfied with the performance of the Dangote Coal Mines Limited in terms of its relationship with communities, and its efforts in ensuring road safety.”
He said it has become important for the committees to visit the host communities to get first-hand information on the operation of the company sequel to a motion moved by Hon Abdullahi Ibrahim Halims, who is representing Ankpa/Omala/Olamaboro constituency in the House of Representatives.
Representative of the Dangote Transport section of the Dangote Cement Plc, Mr Charles Theophilus had told the lawmaker during the interactive session in Abuja that the FRSC officials were involved in the training of the Dangote Drivers.
Deputy Chairman, Solid Minerals Development, Hon Prince Nnamobi, also represented the chairman of his committee during the visit.
Representative of the host communities, the Onu Ojoku, Alhaji Muhammad Ogbe, said the Dangote Coal Mines has “performed beyond expectations in line with the mutually consented Community Development Agreement.”
He thanked the company for providing jobs, education, scholarship, and other infrastructural facilities for his people.
Speaking in the same vein, a lawmaker, Hon Amobi Yinusa Akintola said it was also important for the fact-finding committee to include other mining companies in its investigation.
Speaking for the Dangote Coal Mines Limited, Alhaji Taslim Jimoh said Dangote Group’s President , Aliko Dangote is Africa’s top philanthropist and is very committed to the company’s Social investment.
The General Manager for Special Duties and Community Relations Mr Nohu Elujah said the company was using the Community Development Agreement as a compass for the implementation of its numerous projects. (vitalnewsngr.com)
