The Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC), a subsidiary of NNPC, on Thursday empowered OML 65 and NOGA assets host communities with seven 500KVA and 300 KVA step down transformers in Delta.
Other items donated to the host communities are 300 solar powered deep freezers and 3,000 school chairs and desks.
The Managing Director of NPDC, Mansur Sambo, represented by the Deputy Manager, Community Relations Department (CRD), Noble Imabibo, presented the items to members of the communities.
Sambo said NPDC presented the items to OML 65 and NOGA communities to boost their economy as well as ameliorate the untold hardship facing the people of the communities.
He said the items would be shared among the seven communities in the Non Oil and Gas Asset (NOGA) and OML 65 assets host communities equally.
“The items will no doubt improve the presence of social amenities and life of the people.
“It is therefore pertinent to utilise the kind gesture to better your life and that of your families.
“NPDC is a friend to the communities where its operates, we are partners in progress and we share a common bond towards sustaining the existing mutual relationship.
“We shall continue to leverage on the peaceful coexistence and improve on our corporate social responsibilities to bring about development in our host communities,” he said.
According to Sambo, l advise you to eschew all forms of violence, radicalism and other actions capable of creating societal unrest.
Mr Misan Ogbegbe, President General of one of the benefitting communities, Okorofiangbe community in Warri South, thanked NPDC on behalf of the host communities for the gesture.
Ogbegbe urged NPDC to do more and called on other corporate organisations to take seriously their corporate social responsibilities to host communities.
