ZARAGOZA to team up with FCC for city investment
ZARAGOZA Groupo empresarial is a Spanish group that is moving round Africa continent to help in the area of investment, now they are in Sierra Leone to invest in the capital city through the Freetown City Council. (Photo: Mayor Bode Gibson wants to make a difference )
At a well attended meeting which took place yesterday in the Mayor’s Parlour was attended by His Worship the Mayor of Freetown, Franklyn Bode Gibson, the Chief Executive Officer ZARAGOZA Groupo empresarial, Alfredo Zaragoza, Senior Staff and Councilors, Zaragoza express his profound thanks and appreciation to His Worship the Mayor for passing over their proposal to the Ministry of Finance, and revealed that the purpose of his visit is that his company wants to come and invest in Sierra Leone.
He maintained that they are looking for projects to pre-finance and also to provide sponsorship for that the government of Sierra Leone is willing to offer his company, as his company is moving round Africa to do investment that can be of benefit to a good number of people in a country.
As a His Worship the Mayor is the Father of the city, Zaragoza said he is looking up the Mayor to help fast track the project through the Ministry of Finance .He also mentioned that his company wants a good and guarantee projects, backed by a Memorandum of Understand, as his obligation is to make things logical.
In response, His Worship the Mayor informed the CEO of ZARAGOZA Company that their project proposal that they sent in has to do with Energy, Social Housing, Construction and Waste Management, and noted that the council is now interested in affordable housing his because housing falls under purview of the Freetown City Council, and revealed that waste management has been outsourced to a private company.
Apart from affordable housing, the Mayor informed the Investor they can choose to construct markets and accommodation in available areas in the city, as Council at the moment has two acres of land at Syke Street, as they too are looking out for the possibility to build a eight story building apartment that can accommodate about 300 families, stressing that accommodation is now becoming a difficult problem in the city for people, and reiterated that monies used to construct the building can be retrieved as they are going to rent all of the apartment.
The council the Mayor inform Zaragoza about plans that the council is having to put up historic structures in the city including a shopping mall in the West End of Freetown
The Mayor and staff of the council took the CEO of ZARAGOZA and team to a conducted tour at Syke Street, Kroo Bay, and the Aberdeen Market
By Zainab F.Kanu, Strategic Media and Development Communications Units
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