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Govt to Partner Chinese Firm On Road Construction

This Day
Toba Suleiman
17 June 2007

Ekiti State Government and a Chinese Company have concluded arrangement on how to go into partnership in the areas of road construction and wood processing as a means of transforming the state economy. Besides, the government of the United States of America (USA) was said to have equally concluded plans to make its presence felt in Ekiti State.

Executive Director of the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation, (CCECC) Mr Allen Lee said in Ado-Ekiti, during an economic meeting with the state governor, Mr Segun Oni that his company was fully prepared to partner with the Ekiti State Government in all facets of human endeavours. According to him, the peaceful atmosphere and the favourable industrial climate in the State are the primary incentives which would be tapped to the benefit of the people. Lee disclosed further that all arrangements to stay permanently in Ekiti, have been concluded.

While responding, Oni said his administration was irrevocably committed to the transformation of the state's economy to be one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. Oni disclosed that government was already developing infrastructural facilities, such as power generating through the micro-hydro project, adding that four sites have already been identified for the project in the state.

The governor disclosed that the coming of the CCECC was as a result of the letter written to their headquarters in Beijing, about the need for investors to tap the human and materials resources in Ekiti. Oni therefore, mandated the investors to employ Ekiti indigenes in order to reduce the level of unemployment among the youths.

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