As more investors indicate interest in the Benin Industrial Park project, Edo State Government has initiated a parley with stakeholders in the communities hosting the project, to remove any community-related encumbrances and set the stage for a hitch-free development of the park.

Secretary to the Edo State Government, SSG, Osarodion Ogie, said the state government will today meet traditional rulers, elders  and  youths of communities hosting the industrial park at a town hall meeting.

“The town hall meeting will discuss the Environmental and social impact assessment exercise and Resettlement Action Plan with respect to the Benin Industrial Park project,” Ogie said.

He explained that the “meeting will  hold  at the palace of the Enogie of Oghobaghase Dukedom in Obaretin Community, on Benin-Sapele Road.”

Ogie said the chairman of Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area, the Enogie of Oghobaghase Dukedom, Edionwere, elders, members of Agbomoba, Ekosa and Iyanomo communities are to attend the meeting and urged other interested parties to attend and participate as relevant information will be shared at the meeting venue.