Buzi Hydrocarbons will employ 300 people – Sofala governor

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Buzi Hydrocarbons will employ 300 people – Sofala governor

3:36 CAT | 27 Sep 2016

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Although at this time, the company is only the preparation phase pending the arrival of machinery for the drilling stage, Buzi Hydrocarbons is being touted as the potential employer of some 300 people.

Diario de Moçambique reports that governor Maria Helena Taipo has secured an undertaking from the organisation’s support manager Abdul Razak Juma that Buzi Hydrocarbons will prefer inhabitants of the district when it comes to hiring, and they will constitute the majority of those taken on.

According to Juma, drilling material is expected to land at Beira from Indonesia in the first half of November. Wells drilled thereafter will have a depth of five thousand meters, and the first will take three months to sink.

Juma did not say how much gas would be extracted, but did claim that it would be enough to push forward the Mozambican economy and have a positive impact on the lives of the people of Buzi.

Meanwhile, Helena Taipo encouraged those responsible to consider professionals trained at the National Institute of Employment and Vocational Training (INEFP), which opened on Thursday.

“It is very important to get young people here in Buzi into work, to sense the importance of the company at this point. It is a necessary social responsibility and they will not lack qualified staff, because we have INEFP right here training young people,” the governor urged.

The governor says that liaising with the company now will prevent conflicts in the future by promising local inhabitants a positive impact on their lives.

Taipo is said to have been impressed with what she found during her two-day visit and left Buzi believing that the future was promising, both because of Buzi Hydrocarbons and the INEFP statement as well as the construction of irrigation for rice farming.

Source: AIM