By: Wokoma Emmanuel & Michael Abraham 

The Managing Director of Port Harcourt Refinery Corporation (PHRC), Mr Ahmed Dikko, has honoured the Executive Chairman, Okrika Local Government Council, Hon. Akuro Tobin, with an Award of Excellence.
Dikko, who was represented by the Executive Director, Operations, Engr. Sheik Mohammed, while playing host to the Chairman recently, said the award was in recognition of Tobin’s performance in office.
The LG boss, the MD said, has “made Okrika LGA one of the most peaceful and safest”, adding that “this has attracted both indigenes and non-indigenes to make Okrika their base and home”.
Particularly, he applauded the Chairman for what he called his administration’s remarkable achievements in “infrastructural development, healthcare service delivery, and provision of educational facilities”.
He also assured the LG boss that PHRC would continue to sustain collaboration with its host communities in fulfilment of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
Present at the event were: Manager, Public Affairs, Mrs Henrietta Obioma-Igwe; Acting Executive Director, Services, Engr. Martins Toluchi; and Director, Production Programme and Quality Control Department, Mrs Ifeoma Nwawulu.
While thanking the MD and his team for the award, the council boss noted that whatever he had done for his people was in fulfilment of his social contract to the people of the LGA.
“I will continue to deliver good governance and robust development of the LGA by returning the clemency of the LGA’s ambience in order to trigger a seismic socio-economic prosperity,”he said.
He assured that the current enabling environment created by his administration for businesses and other ventures to thrive will be sustained.
“More channels of synergy and collaborations will be opened for organizations that will add impetus to my administration”, he stated.