Kaduna Refinery pleads for cordial relationship

HOST communities of the Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company (KRPC), Kaduna have been
called upon to discard being lured into hostility by misinformed and mischievous people to cause disaffection between them.

  The KRPC Managing Director, Saidu Aliyu Mohammed speaking through the Executive Director Operations,  Adolphus Ezeribe at the flag-off of the company's Immunization-De-worming exercise for seven host communities, observed that in most cases, disgruntled people try to drive a hedge in their cordial relationship.

  “Such are the people for their own selfish reasons spread the unfounded propaganda that KRPC does not give heed to the environmental impact of its activities especially as they affect the host communities”; Engineer Mohammed declared while , emphatically affirming that  “the KRPC addresses strictly to international best practices in its operations and will never do anything that will harm its neighbours”.

  The Managing Director emphasized that KRPC activities are strictly regulated by the relevant bodies for such actions hence it was absolved by the court recently over a legal action instituted by “some misinformed folks”, about the company's stewardship.

  Further buttressing his claim about improving the host communities, he noted that the sight of pregnant, breast feeding mothers and babies as well as children from the surrounding host communities at the on-going immunization and de-worming programme have made nonsense of their spurious claims of infertility said to have been caused by the company's operation.

  He called on members of the host communities to disregard them, stating that they are after their selfish interests and urging them to continue to associate with KRPC in order to jointly reap the fruits of their neighbourly cooperation, while thanking the Expanded Immunization Programme (EPI) staff of the Chikun Local Government officials for partnering in the exercise.

  He disclosed that although KRPC is financially in a precarious state, it still squeezes out funds for impactful projects for its host communities, hence its present exercise is targeted at 8,000 babies and pregnant women as well as de-worming of same number of adult men, women and children. He recalled that 6,000 men were vaccinated against cerebra-spinal meningitis in 2013.