Counting Our Blessings with African Minerals
“You cannot light a lamp and hide it under a basket”, so stated Jesus Christ, the greatest man that once walked the face of the earth. This implies that you cannot get a good thing but not show appreciation for it.
One good thing that has happened to Sierra Leone as a State and as a nation since the end of the war in 2007 is the coming of African Minerals mining company seven years ago into the country.
When African Minerals first came to Sierra Leone setting up the preliminaries to its exploration ventures, the country was badly crying for investment and job opportunities for the mammoth number of youths that roamed the face of the country, unemployed and vulnerable to any abuse and temptation.
Like the steady flow of blessing for the state, nation and the youths in particular of the country, the company’s exploration has yielded its expected dividend and the blessings are already coming in multiple for the entire nation.
Now the economy of the country is getting a $3 billion strong revamp, over 20,000 youths will gain employment in due course, the state (government) will collect its tax and revenue, and the ordinary man will live to enjoy the corporate social gesture – all courtesy of the largest iron ore and magnetite mining company in the world based in Sierra Leone, known as African Minerals Limited.
In the recent launch of a $160 million road and rail construction venture undertaken by the company; the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma, could not hide his genuine opinion about the company when he said “I have studied the African Minerals proposals and noted that it is very good in every sense of it, good for my people and my country, I am satisfied with it; I give it the go ahead.”
This expression was apt because of the already impressive social and corporate venture of the company to the people of Sierra Leone, little wonder why it won the Global Award for Corporate Social Responsibility.
What this obviously tells us is that with African Minerals, we have just started counting our blessings.Â
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