Revive Ajaokuta Steel with recovered loots-Saliu to FG

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Revive Ajaokuta Steel with recovered loots-Saliu to FG

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Mr Otori Saliu, a former National President of Iron and Steel Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, tasks government to revive Ajaokuta Steel Plant with a apart of the recovered loots.Saliu communicated this in an interview with newsmen in Abuja on Friday. He urged the Federal Government to use part of the recovered loots to complete the remaining two per cent of the Ajaokuta steel company. According to him, the facilities in Ajaokuta steel cannot be compared with any steel company abroad; it is integrated and can produce steel for making and fixing cars.“The Ajaokuta steel is integrated, it has 43 plants where steel needed for cars, aero plane, among others, can be manufactured and assembled because it is an integrated steel plant,” Saliu said.The Steel association head also advised government to expedite action in getting Ajaokuta running, adding that some past administrations had promised to revive the steel company during political campaigns, but could not live up to it.According to him, workers are working on the abandoned company 24 hours, especially at the downstream end of the plant to prevent it from submerging due to its closeness to River Niger.“In spite of their commitment to safeguarding the upstream and downstream sections of the steel plant, the Federal Government has continued to pay Ajaokuta workers low salary.“We are trying our best to test run the equipment in the plant to ensure they are still functioning.“We have staff working at the downstream section 24 hours pumping out water that found its   way into the plant failing which Ajaokuta could submerge within a few days,”Saliu further said.NAN reports that stakeholders in the steel sector have urged the Federal Government to expedite action in reviving the Ajaokuta steel through Public-Private Partnership model.

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