The Chairman of Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), Hon. Christopher Zakka Maikalangu, has solicited the support of the Nigerian Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) in tackling erosion and other ecological issues affecting the council.
Speaking Tuesday during a courtesy visit on the management of NUPRC, Maikalangu urged the Commission to always consider AMAC in its Corporate Social Responsibility programmes and to consider qualified unemployed youths for employment and sponsorship in its training.
He said: “We are here basically to discuss issues of partnership and interest and above all, forge an alliance for the good of our individual organizations and the country at large. Although we are fully conversant with the statutory mandate of the Commission as it relates to oil and gas administration, we believe in your ability to be responsive to the yearnings of your immediate host community by impacting on relevant public policies.
“Your commission is within our soil in AMAC, which qualifies for every description of a host community. As your host, we call for greater collaboration. We are therefore here to seek areas of collaboration with NUPRC, especially in sensitizing our youths against restiveness and vandalism of public property such as those belonging to the NNPC and NUPRC.
“We are therefore constrained to ask your management to always consider AMAC in your Corporate Social Responsibility programmes and use your good office to consider employing our qualified unemployed youths for employment and sponsorship in your training.
“We would also appreciate it if you could find some of our ecological and environmental issues, especially those that border on climate change. I also implore you to kindly consider the sponsorship of skills acquisition empowerment schemes, especially construction and equipping of existing centres as well as sponsorship of local and international training opportunities for the teeming, qualified, unemployed youths.”
Responding, NUPRC Chief Executive, Engr. Gbenga Komolafe, represented by the Head of General Administration, Dr Aminu Zaria, said that the management will look into the training of AMAC youths as the training will pave the way for self-employment.
