A team of
23 Russian engineers have been in the country touring the Ajaokuta Steel plant
to assess what needs to be done to wake the sleeping giant for optimal operation
to industrialize the Nigerian economy.
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The Russians are at the plant on the heels of what the Minister of Steel
Development, Prince Shuiabu Audu, had informed Nigerians earlier about the
Russian engineers coming to the complex to carry out a technical audit of the
plant.
Meanwhile, a top
official working at the complex who wants to remain anonymous confirmed the
presence and inspection of the plant by the Russian engineers to Vanguard at
the weekend.
He said: “As of
today, we had the Russians with us, the original builders of Ajaokuta Steel
Company. We have about 23 of them here in Ajaokuta, and they have been here
since last Sunday.”
He further stated that,
“The team are here to do the technical audit, and they have been moving around
within the company, and they are working day and night, and it is all about the
revitalization project according to what the Minister of Steel Development has
said, and the Sole Administrator of Ajaokuta Steel Complex, Engr Abdul-Akaba
Sumaila, has been taken them round, shop to shop.”
According to him,
what the Russians are there for at the ASCL is not different from what the
Minister had informed Nigerians about the efforts of the Tinubu-led
administration to ensure the complex starts operations, which has been the long
expectation of Nigerians including investors.
“It is not different
from what the Minister is saying. We the workers are very happy because this is
the first time we are witnessing this in our lifetime, and we have been hearing
it and we are happy that they are here.
“We are also praying
that it materializes in our own time so that we can reap from the goodness of
it, and it is not different from what the Minister has said, and the objectives
of the Minister and that of the Sole Administrator, and workers are happy that
it is coming to fruition.