NNPC, Total Upstream, hand Model Secondary School to Delta Government

NNPC, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation and Total Upstream, have handed over a Model Secondary School built in Oginibo, Ughelli South Local Government Area to Delta Government.

NNPC and Total Upstream PSC Partnership built the Model Secondary School. The handover held during the week in Delta State.

Governor  Ifeanyi Okowa thanked the corporate institutions for the educational support to the State.

Chiedu Ebie, Secretary to the State Government (SSG), represented governor Okowa. He emphasized that Delta government will continue to create an enabling environment for businesses to thrive to sustain the Stronger Delta vision of the administration.

“Since the inception of the administration, government had worked assiduously to promote peace and tranquility in the state. This enables the private sector to discharge their corporate social responsibility to their host communities in a peaceful environment.

“In the spirit of partnership, NNPC-Total Upstream should also extend its corporate social responsibility to the maintenance of the infrastructure. This should not only be in the school but also in its areas of operation in the state.

This according to the governor, would create the enduring legacies of developmental partnership instead of monuments, which he noted, often resulted from decay and disuse.

Okowa assured the people of Otu-Jeremi and Ughelli South Council of his government’s commitment to the development of the area.

Shared Responsibility

He stated that this could only be achieved through collective efforts and shared responsibility between the government and the people.

He urged the people of Jeremi Clan, to as a matter of obligation, take ownership of the provided public infrastructure. “Take ownership for the common  good of the community and also protect it,” he said.

Senator Okowa thanked the management of NNPC-Total Upstream and its PSC partners for the show of commitment to corporate social responsibility and urged other private organizations in the state to emulate such.

Reuben Izeze, representing Ughelli South in the State Assembly, thanked NNPC/Total Upstream for building a Model Secondary School in Oginibo. He assured that the community would secure and protect the facilities in the school.

He pledged the continued support of the people of Ughelli South Local Government Area to the government of Governor Okowa.

In his remarks, Basic and Secondary Education Commissioner, Patrick Ukah, thanked NNPC-Total Upstream for choosing an education project as CSR. He said the project would boost the educational infrastructure in the state.

Chief Ukah charged the community to protect the facilities in the school from vandals. He added that school facilities have  been under threat in the state.

Earlier, Mike Sangster, Managing Director, Nigeria Total Upstream companies, said that the completion and commissioning of Oginibo Secondary School in Otu-Jeremi was in furtherance of the company’s corporate social responsibility initiatives in its deep-water operations.

He stated that the project was borne out of the need to mitigate the gaps in qualitative and technical education.