Greenville LNG pays courtesy call on Kaduna Gov Sani

The   Management   of   Nigeria’s   leading   domestic   gas   infrastructure   development,   gas liquefaction   and   distribution   company,   Greenville   LNG   has   paid a  courtesy   call   on   the Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani last Friday.

The Greenville LNG delegation   to   the   meeting   with   the   Governor   was   led   by   the   company’s   Director,  Inter-governmental relations, Alhaji Zubairu Ibrahim Bayi.

Speaking on behalf of the Chairman, the Board, and Management of Greenville LNG, Bayi thanked the Governor, the State Government and the good people of Kaduna State for the State’s friendly cooperation and supportive disposition towards Greenville LNG 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.

Alhaji Zubairu Ibrahim Bayi thanked Governor Sani, his Executive Council and the Kaduna people for providing a progressively conducive and safe environment for Greenville LNG   to   work   in   Kaduna   State,   pointedly   ascribing   the   business-friendly   situation   to Governor Sani’s  well-rounded  socio-political and economic management  experience.

Bayi hailed  the Kaduna  Governor’s  visionary governance  and effective leadership  of the State, adding 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. According   to   Alhaji   Bayi,  “…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 added  that during  the construction  of the  Greenville LNG  facilities in  Kaduna, the company engaged over 500 workers amongst whom were over 250 Kaduna indigenes. “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,”  said Bayi.

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.

Greenville LNG’s projects also activates 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. While responding to the remarks of the Greenville LNG’s delegation leader, Governor Sani thanked the Greenville LNG corporation for its well vested business interest   in   Kaduna   State.   The   Governor   emphasised   his   recognition   that  “there   is   an  inescapable  nexus   between   effective   leadership,   a   conducive   and   business-friendly  environment and successful investment promotion.”

His administration, the Governor said, is committed to creating and sustaining a conducive environment that makes Kaduna State every serious investor’s destination of choice in Nigeria.

He called Greenville LNG’s presence in Kaduna State positively historic, and informed the company’s delegation that the Kaduna 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.

Governor  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. The Executive Governor, His Excellency Uba Sani an engineer by profession, who was at different times in the past Advisor to President Olusegun Obasanjo on Public Affairs, Special Adviser, Political and intergovernmental affairs in Kaduna State, Senator for Kaduna Central Senatorial District at the 9th Nigerian Senate, 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.

He prayed for the success of Greenville LNG’s businesses in Kaduna State. The Kaduna State Government’s team that accompanied Governor Uba 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 amongst others.

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