Total Delivers 500KVA Transformer To Community

The management of Total Exploration and Production Company Limited has delivered a 500KVA transformer to the people of Umuebulu in Etche Local Government Area of Rivers State with a charge to the people to protect the facility from vandals and thieves.
The Project General Manager of the company, Mr. Kayode Akiode, who gave the charge last Friday at Umuebulu Town hall, venue of the event said it was part of the firm’s corporate social responsibility.
Akiode who was represented at the event by the Manager, Community Affairs Services, Mr. Okechukwu Obara, said the project that was being commissioned was in respect of Nordem Option Pipeline, (NOPL), linking Rumuji in Rivers State to Alaoji in Abia State.
He noted that Umuebulu Committee in Etche Cluster 4 of NOPL project was the first to be completed and commissioned by Total in joint venture with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), representative of the federal Government.
He restated the commitment of Total towards ensuring implementation of its corporate social responsibility.
“The project is a continuation of Total’s community-friendly attiude. The project is as a result of the gas pipeline passing through your community from Rumuji to Alaoji”, he said and advised the community to protect the facility so as to achieve the ultimate aim for which it was installed.
Responding, the Community Development Committee Chairman of Umuebulu, Comrade Victor Okere, lauded the company for the actualisation of the project.
He said for over one year the community had been in darkness because the former project in the area was bad and promised that adequate protection would be given to the transformer by his people.
The Tide reports that the community people hailed the commissioning as it marked the return of electricity supply to them.
Umuebulu Committee in Etche Cluster 4 initiated the project with Total as a matter of priority need to the people and the gas pipeline project was being handled by Nigeria Gas Company (NGC), a subsidiary of NNPC.

Chris Oluoh

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