Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Dr Uchechukwu Ogah on Friday said the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is determined to develop salt deposits in Ebonyi State.
Ogah said the government wants to turn the salt deposits in Ebonyi into commercial quantity for growth of Gross Domestic Product(GDP) of the government and also generate thousands of jobs for the people of the country.
The minister disclosed this in Abakaliki, the state capital when he visited the state governor, Dave Umahi, after inspecting some of the salt lakes in the state.
The state have large salt deposits which have remained largely untapped by successive governments in the country.
But Ogah noted that the status quo in this regard is about to change as the Presidential Initiative on Development of Salts have brought in consultants into Ebonyi State to look at how the salt deposits could be developed.
According to him, Presidential Initiative on Development of Salts is the first in the history of the country and is driven by President Buhari and Governor Umahi, two men he noted have the burning desire to develop the solid mineral sector of the economy.
He said the initiative also demonstrates the love President Muhammadu Buhari has for the South East
He described Ebonyi as one of the fore runners in terms of solid mineral with great potentials which the Federal Government would benefit from to diversify the nation’s economy.
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