Bauchi State Government in partnership with Resident Cement Factory Limited, has commenced the construction of a 10 million metric ton capacity Cement company located in Diji Village in Gwana District in Alkaleri Local Government Area of the State worth $1.5 billion.
Speaking earlier, the Group Chairman of Resident Cement Factory Ltd, Dr. Abbas Waziri Junaid said that they have deployed all manners of geological investigations where it was proved that the deposit in Gwana is sustainable and enough to establish a cement plant.
“Why we are here today is to prove what geophysics has discovered and found huge deposit of limestone, and for us to be able to prove that is sustainable enough for the quantity of 10 million metric tons capacity for the next one hundred years”, Junaid said.
Junaid disclosed that the proposed project would attract thousands of people, and called on the people to invest in the provision of infrastructure that would accommodate people, revealing further that the company would at the start bring 1000 trucks with an employment of 3,000 drivers.
