The Cement Company of Northern Nigeria (CCNN), otherwise known as Sokoto Cement, has donated no fewer than 150 metric tonnes of cement to 86 host communities of Wamakko Local Government Area of Sokoto State.
The donation is part of the company’s corporate social responsibility.
Sada Suleiman, corporate affairs manager, who made the donation on behalf of Yusuf Haliru Binji, the managing director, said the company would continue to carry out more of such assistance.
“What we are doing today is a continuation of our Corporate Social Responsibly. About 86 villages are to benefit from the gesture. We are giving out about 140 tonnes. And in monetary terms, it translates to about N8 million,” he said.
He informed that the company equally monitors how these benefiting villages use the cement.
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“I have been to a good number of them and realised that they often use them for mosques, cemetery, well, Islamic schools, and lots more. We monitor and evaluate how they use the cement we have given them. I can say bluntly that these beneficiaries use them judiciously.
“In addition to this tradition which we have been observing for the past 30 years, we have been giving and will continue to give scholarship to students from states of Sokoto, Kebbi, and Zamfara as well,” he said.
Binji said CCNN would begin to produce 5 million metric tonnes of cement, even as he appreciated the cordial relationship that exists between CCNN and host communities.
On his part, Bello Haliru Guiwa, Wamakko Local Government chairman, represented by his secretary, Shittu Bello Goronyo, said CCNN has always been their best friends in all ramifications.
“CCNN has been of great assistance to us host community, the state and the country at large,” he said.
Umaru Abubakar, district head of Sabon Garin Gidan Bahore, said they use such assistance to repair their mosques and burial grounds.
By ABDULFATAI ABDULSALAM in Sokoto
