Belemaoil Producing Limited, an indigenous oil firm and operator of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)/Belemaoil Joint Venture has provided water and undertook roads projects in communities in Katsina, Bauchi, Gombe and Sokoto states.
The company’s Manager, Corporate Affairs, Samuel Abel-Jumbo, said in Port Harcourt it embarked on the projects in order to bring succour to the people of its host communities, the Niger Delta region and Nigeria at large.
President and Founder of Belemaoil Producing Limited., Mr. Jack-Rich Tein Jr., had said while commissioning the projects that the projects were a way of promoting oneness and unity in Nigeria and to better the lots of the people and give them a better lease of life.
He said that as someone who comes from a community that lacked potable water for hundreds of years, he understood the plights of the people of the communities who had to travel miles to get drinkable water.
He explained that despite political differences and affiliations, Nigeria remain one country and Nigerians must build bridges that promote love and oneness.
According to him: “This gathering here today is as a result of our desire to share fellowship, to share oneness, a one united country called Nigeria.
“Nigeria is one indivisible country that is centred on love irrespective of the political insinuations, affiliations and we must as a matter of fact build bridges that unite us.
“Political parties are platforms we use in showcasing our interests but when we get back to these political parties, Nigerians get back to us.
“We are here to demonstrate oneness, we are here to demonstrate love. You here in the north and myself from the Niger Delta, are one. Every country, the U.S, UK, Europe, they all have their challenges but when you have a challenge what you do with that challenge draws you to solution.
“So, the challenges we are going through as Nigerians is to bring us together and design new ways of making Nigeria a better country.
“When my friend, Umar Kumo (PA on Special Duties to SGF) mentioned this project to me, I said what your community is facing, my community is also going through.
“My community has been there for six, seven hundred years with so much wealth in terms of natural resources and all that but lacked potable drinking water. We drink from contaminated stagnant stream and well water that has been contaminated.
“He said to me, my community travels about 10-12 kilometres in search of water and I promised them that because NNPC love community development, I will initiate the project and see how we can embark on them. We are happy that this project has come to a successful end and we are commissioning themt today.”
