…As Jossy Nkwocha bows out
By Obiabin Onukwugha
Leading fertilizer and petrochemical company, Indorama Eleme Petrochemical and Fertilizers Company Limited has stated that it is committed to policy of protecting the environment, safety and corporate social responsibility.
Indorama managing director, Mr. Manish Mundra, stated this during a guided tour of the company’s plants at Eleme, Rivers State, on Thursday.
Speaking at a reception tagged “Happy Hour with Journalists in Rivers” shortly after the tour, Mundra, represented by Indorama Chief Technical Officer, Mr. Deepu Sivadaz, emphasised the premium the company places.on the environment, safety and corporate social responsibility (CSR). He also noted the existing collaboration between the media and the company.
He said: “For us, our environment, our safety performance, our CSR, these things are important as our production. We value our association with all of you. We have had a great collaboration and a great journey so far. You have always been ready to come and see our story here and report it in the right way and communicating the development we have been doing here in the right perspective. So we will want to thank you for this collaboration and we want this collaboration to continue.”
Mundra also announced the retirement of head of Corporate Communications and spokesman, Dr. Jossy Nkuocha, after 18 years of meritorious service and the appointment of Mr. Justice Tiennebeso Bibiye, a journalist as the new head of Corporate Communications.
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Eulogising the performance of Nwuocha, Mundra,
said it is rare to find a head of department in any organization that turned the department to his image, saying Nkwocha achieved the feat. He admitted that Nkwocha left big shoes to be filled. The Indorama boss also advised Bibiye to work hard to fit into the big shoes being left by Nkwocha, saying: “He may not be tall but his shoes are quite big.”
In his speech, Nkwocha, also a journalist and former General Editor of Newswatch Magazine, thanked journalists for their support throughout his stay as Indorama spokesman, noting that he has never had media crisis in his eighteen years of services and called for a continuous collaboration with the the new head of the department.
He stated that the objective of the event was to thank the media for supporting him and urged them to extend the same support to his successor, Bibiye, whom he said would step into his shoes after he formally steps aside on May 31, 2025.
In his goodwill speech, Chairman of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) in Rivers State, Mr. Paul.Bazia, appreciated Indorama for how healthy they have kept the environment. He noted that the problem of Ogoni and the Niger Delta has been that of pollution. “It did not only come.to be a petrochemical company, but a socially responsible company,” he said.
Bazia therefore thanked Nkwocha for his relationship with the media and wished him well.
During the guided tour, NatureNews observed that the company’s facility is laced with green spaces to promote a healthy environment.
It would be recalled that Indorama acquired the Eleme Petrochemical from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) in 2006 when it was privatized. As of today, Indorama ranks 7th in the world and contributes about N50billion to Nigeria annual gross domestic product (GDP).
