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Shell Spends N10.5bn On Cluster GMoU
Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) says that in conjunction with its joint venture partners, it has spent a total of N10.5 billion between 2006 till date in project executions in the 12 clusters covered under Global Memorandum of Understanding (GMOU) agreements in Bayelsa State.
The General Manager,Sustainable Development and Company Relations of the company, Mr Philip Mshebila disclosed this in his goodwill message at the official commissioning of some projects by the Okordia/Zarama Community Development Board recently.
Consequently, he said the sum of N1.418 billion is spent annual to deliver community development projects through the GMoUs.
Meshebila who was represented by Manager, Government and Community Relations, Mr Evans Krukubo, said the GMOUs had been proved to be very effective in the company’s commitment to sustainable development of the Niger Delta region
“I have always believed in value driven partnerships. You see, partnerships that engage the strenghts of the private sector, government and civil societies can, under, the right conditions, yield better and more sustainable results for communities’’, he said.
He said the propjects pioneered by the Okordia/Zarama Cluster Development Board in partnership with SPDC were part of the GMoU platform with support from the Bayelsa State government, and commended members of the board for their selfless and patriotic service to their people.
According to him, “the 22 projects being commissioned which cut across “economic empowerment and infrastructure, viz roads, town halls , classroom blocks, portable water with a total value of N160m will not only improve the economic well-being in those communities but also create job opportunities”.
Also in his speech, the chairman of the occasion, Mr Kingsly Eze of Living Earth Foundation, commended members of the board for justifying the confidence reposed in them by the people.
He, however urged SPDC to encourage the board in providing more incentives that would enable them to put in their best, saying that he expected other cluster GMOUs in the state to emulate Okordia/Zarama which had performed exceedingly well within a year of coming into existence.
Earlier.the chairman of the cluster development board, Pastor Timi Obonah said that the body which inaugurated in 2011 drew its members from the nine communiies that make up the Okordia/Zarama Cluster Development Board (OZCDB) which source of fund depends on the GMOU sponsored by SPDC
.Pastor Obonomah said the projects executed and ready for commissioning includes 5 community town halls, 12 concrete walk-ways, 5 guest houses, 4 borehole, 3 haic hummer buses, with other projects mentioned as removal of water hycienth along the Talor Creek, health scheme and agricultural materials distributed to farmers
.While stating that the major challenges facing the board was that of security and maintence of peace, Mf Obonomah appealed to SPDC to consider provision of stipents to members as necessary incentives to spur them put the best of their energy.
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