Gasland Nigeria Limited has denied the siting of a gas plant within the Aerodome Estate, Samonda, Ibadan, Oyo State.
Gatekeepers News reports that Management Of Gasland Nigeria Limited said the news is totally misleading and capable of portraying its company as insensitive to the feelings of the people the company is reputed for serving responsibly over the years.
Its management, in a statement, said the report by an online medium (not Gatekeepers News) titled “RESIDENTS PETITION MAKINDE OVER SITING OF GAS PLANT” is not true.
According to the company, their “site in question is not situated within the Aerodrome Estate, Samonda, Ibadan, rather the site is along the Sango – U.I road also known as Oyo Road, Ibadan.”
The statement added that the site is on a commercial plot and not within any residential estate as falsely stated in the press release.
In actual fact, the plot was designated on the Oyo State maasterplan for the construction of the NNPC Mega Station/ LPG Gas Plant, the company said.
The organisation noted that it secured all necessary and statutory approvals from all the agencies of the Federal and State Governments and these include approvals from (i) the Oyo State Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning (ii) the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), (iii) Federal Ministry of Environment (iv) the State and Federal Fire Services, (v) Federal Highway Services, etc.
The statement read further, “We are not unmindful of the underground moves by the proprietor of a Gas Company who is a member of Aerodrome Estate to instigate some unsuspecting members of the Estate against our company and project after he failed to persuade us to sell the land to him to build his own gas plant.
“Gasland has been in this business for over 26 years and we are too experience on the job not to know where to site a gas plant to ensure the safety of lives and property.
“To the glory of God, none of our gas plants operating all over the country including Oyo State has ever recorded any unfortunate incident including fire.”
The management added that the safety of lives and properties are their main properties and they can never sacrifice “this core value of ours” for anything.
They, therefore, appealed to the Oyo State Government and the people of Oyo State not to be deceived by the lies and misinformation contained in the said press release.
