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The
Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board
(NCDMB), Engr. Felix Omatsola Ogbe has commended Coleman Wires and
Cables for its remarkable accomplishments as a world-class manufacturer of
top-grade cables for industrial use and other purposes.
The NCDMB
boss was particularly impressed with the breakthrough the company has made in
the manufacture and deployment of cables for different
industries, including fibre-optic cables used in the
telecommunication sub-sector, which was hitherto entirely dependent on
imports and foreign expertise.
At a meeting
at the Nigerian Content Tower (NCT), Yenagoa on
Wednesday, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Coleman
Wires and Cables, Mr. George Olutope Onafowokan narrated how
the NCDMB and the implementation of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry
Development (NOGICD) Act have been instrumental to the success of the
company.
Mr. Onafowokan had
stated that his team was at the NCT to brief the Executive Secretary on the
impact of the NCDMB on the company. In his remarks which he prefaced with the
words “Coleman and NOGICD Act,” he praised NCDMB
“for catalysing indigenous businesses,” stating that his company’s
success is a testimony to how impactful the Board has been in the
implementation of the NOGICD Act, 2010.
According to
the Coleman boss, “What the NCDMB impact creates is sustainable development,”
and “a continuous drive for local content leads to continuous
drive for sustainable growth.”
Onafowokan assured
the NCDMB of “the quality and reliability of its products, adhering to
international standards,” which “guarantee that projects in the oil and gas
industry and other industries maintain necessary safety and performance
standards.”
According to
him, “Coleman Wires and Cables can collaborate with the NCDMB on initiatives
aimed at technology transfer and capacity building within the local workforce,”
noting that such a move would help “to enhance skills and expertise in the
manufacturing sector, promoting sustainable development and
competitiveness.”
He urged the
NCDMB Management to continue to encourage the international oil companies
(IOCs) and Independent Petroleum Producers Group (IPPG)
to patronise the company in its areas of competency.
Coleman
Wires and Cables commenced cables production with a capacity of 1,200
metric tons of copper and 800 metric tons of aluminum per annum
in 1996, and became a full member of Cable Manufacturers Association
of Nigeria (CAMAN) in 2001.
Coleman
Wires and Cables, with its corporate headquarters at Arepo, Ogun State, along
the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, is sub-Saharan Africa’s largest manufacturer of
International Electrotechnical Commission-grade cables. It prides itself as
“compliant in local content development by manufacturing products within
Nigeria” and having “100% Nigerian Content level.”
The
company’s technical capabilities and accomplishments as presented by its CEO
include “Low voltage, medium voltage and high voltage cables, earthing cables
and conductors; Fibre-optic cables (2-288 fibre cables);
Submarine EPR cables (LV/HV), and Construction of a copper and aluminum smelting
plant (3,000 tons of aluminum and 8,000 tons of copper per month).”
At Sagamu,
Ogun State, is the company’s ultra-modern fibre-optic cable manufacturing
factory with a floor capacity of 40,000 square metres that produces
all variants of optic fibre cables. It has capacity “to produce nine-
million-kilometre fibre count per annum.” Products range from 2
core fibre to 508 fibrecables, water blocking, steel
reinforcement, and so on.