BUA Cement Donates Cement, N10m to Host Communities in Sokoto

Onuminya Innocent

The BUA Cement Company, as part of it corporate social responsibility, has donated 150 tonnes of cement and N10 million to its host communities in Wamakko Local Government of Sokoto State.

Presenting the items to the beneficiaries t

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of BUA, Mr. Yusuf Binji, said the gesture was meant to provide succour to the people of the communities.

Binji, who was represented by the Manager, Administration and Corporate Affairs, Sada Suleiman, noted that the event was an annual occasion for the company to donate to its host community despite COVID-19 pandemic challenges.

He further disclosed that the gesture would enable the benefiting communities and individuals to rehabilitate cemetery, town hall square and private buildings.

He maintained that with the cost of building materials the company deemed it fit to provide the materials for them to carry out rehabilitation.

Binji added that plans are on the way to carry out empowerment program and provision of scholarship to indigent students of Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara States.

He said: “What you are witnessing today is that we are giving back what the communities have given to us.”

Earlier the Executive Chairman of Wamakko Local Government, Mr. Bello Haliru Gwiwa, who was represented by the Council’s Secretary, Mr. Abubakar Chika Umar, thanked the BUA for its kind gesture and urged other companies in the state to emulate it.

The District Head of Wamakko, Mr. Aliyu Barade Wamakko, thanked BUA saying the items would go a long way in ameliorating the plight of the people.

He promised that the items would be judiciously use by the beneficiaries.