Warri-based business mogul, Ambassador Anthony Ejiofor has appealed to oil multinationals to relocate their head offices to the Niger Delta to heal the poverty ravaging the region.
Ejiofor who is the Chief Executive Officer of LightWorld & Industries Nigeria Limited, made the appeal on Tuesday while presenting food items worth over one million naira to some widows and indigents in Warri.
The philanthropist said that the gesture was part of his corporate social responsibility to the host community where he does his business.
Ejiofor said that he had been doing it for the past five years adding the over 300 persons benefited from this year largesse.
“What the oil companies are doing in the Niger Delta region is bad. All the headquarters of oil companies should relocate to the region because these are the people feeling the impact of the pollution and environmental degradation.
“I have said that as long as my businesses are here, we will continue to perform our social cooperate responsibility to the people because I am also benefiting from them.
“We are targeting the widows and the less privileged in the society. We owe as a duty to help the less privileged in the society.
“We want to encourage other business owners in Warri to also key into what we are doing for the less privileged in the society,” he said.
Ejiofor commended gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta for creating an enabling business environment in the state.
“As an economist, I know how the economy works and I can confidently tell you that Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa has been able to balance the economy and he had brought a lot of confident to investors.
“We are doing what we are doing today because of what governor Okowa had put in place,” he said.
The business mogul said that plan was underway to extend the humanitarian gesture to scholarship for the children of the widows.
“We are looking at giving University scholarships to children of the widows in the society because we believe that once we empower one person in the family that person can empower others,” he said.
