By Naomi Uzor
DANGOTE Group has positioned its subsidiary firm Dangote Bail Limited, as the hub for exporting its brand of bagged cement to sub Saharan-Africa.

The facility is located at the Federal Ocean Terminal Onne in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.According to the General Manager Operations, Mr. Abdullahi Bada, the Group’s reasons for expanding investment in the nation’s cement industry(Obajana cement, Kogi, BCC Gboko, including Lagos , Port Harcourt and the soon to take off Ibese plant in Ogun State ) was to ensure self- sufficiency in local demands, while aiming for the export markets.aActing Production Manager, Timothy Age, said that the company has invested in latest- of -the art technology that will enable them to meet both  local demand and for export targets, disclosing that both the Port Harcourt and Onne plant have an installed capacity of six million metric tons, but due to market regulation, currently the facility delivers 11,000 metric tons 24/7 , and about 1.4 million metric tons yearly.

Manager, Community & Public Affairs, Oluka Ngofa; his words “as a responsible corporate citizen, we try as much as possible to abiding by the regulations as regards government and community relationship. Outside of those rules, as an organisation, we also go ahead to engage our communities in sch a way that we see them as stakeholders.

We are not just out to pacify them but we make them part of our business so that they have stakes in what we are doing. That is the main secret why we have been having peaceful operations despite other challenges”

The Group, he said, has long recognised that when you make the host communities as stakeholders in your business, they know that if anything goes wrong with the business, it’ll affect them economically.

On how many people are on the company’s pay check, he declared; “Our staff are 100 per cent Nigerians. We have 600 people on our payrolls, and we don’t keep casuals in our employment. All are full-time workers.