The establishment of
Ajaokuta Steel plant in Kogi State was seen as the desired step towards
heralding Nigeria into the industrial age. But 30 years after, the plant
has remained mothballed as the equipment and other facilities are still
lacking. AJEOKUTA LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROGRESSIVE YOUTHS, WOMEN AND LEADERS, looks at the problems and need for Hon ABDULRAHMAN IBRAHIM DANSEBE. TO COME AND RESCUED US
The construction of Ajaokuta Steel plant
more than 30 years, was intended to be the pivot on which the
industrialization of Nigeria would take place. However, today, the
gigantic edifice has remained abandoned, without achieving the noble aim
for its existence.
The coming of the military in the 80’s
disrupted activities at the Ajaokuta Steel Plant, National Iron Ore
Company, Itakpe and all subsidiaries like Oshogbo, Aladja and Katsina
steel rolling mills, as there were no clear direction by the successive
administrations to revamp them.
Investigations revealed that there is no
doubt that a functional steel plant and allied subsidiaries will play a
major role in propelling Nigeria to realise the objective of vision
20-2020, of being among the 20 best economies of the world.
One wonders why the federal government
has not been able to take the bull by the horns in the last 14 years of
democratic administration, considering that it took the then NPN
-administration four years to build the plants and questions agitating
Nigerians are why is the Ajaokuta plant still underutilised after 98
percent completion?
However, in line with the determination
to realise the objectives of vision 2020, the need to revive the ailing
Ajaokuta Steel Plant has been stressed.
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