Giving back to the community is a thing of joy, happiness and excitement to the giver and people receiving. Some people have even averred that the joy is more alluring, enduring and exciting when the giver like Egede Chukwuebuka who recently built a fertilizer blending plant in one of the suburbs, Lohdic in Rantya community, Jos, Plateau state, North Central Nigeria did by giving to the same society that contributed to making him. He grew up in Jos, did part of his schooling and started life in Jos, before traveling abroad.
Some people contend that it is even more appealing and impactful when what is given back to the society is an investment, targeted at creating a shift that can broaden economic activities and opportunities and expand the social life of the people in the rural communities, as Egede Chukwuebuka did in Lohdic.
Siting a fertilizer blending factory in Lohdic community, translates to injection or introduction of new modes of operations and methods: technology, skills enhancement, increased utilization of available local resources: raw materials and human, and reduction in production processes, procedures and cost.
It gladdens the heart that the subject of interest in this instance is a factory. It has the capacity to increase employment, heighten job creation and wealth generation activities and attract more people and resources to the community.
The factory is fundamental and essentially so to the community. It will support and promote economic diversification, lead to increased use of existing space and other resources, cause higher yield in both quantity and quality; increase income and attract higher profit to the largely farming community and beyond.
The attendant multiplier effects of introducing the fertilizer blending plant in the rural Lohdic community are huge. In addition to contributing towards reduction in poverty level, starvation and hunger, a gradual rise in the number of new businesses and shops operating in the area are other benefits. It will also lead to increased exposure and awareness and result to doing some old things in new ways and in some cases even, doing new things in old ways by some of the residents and in the face of this earn better and live a more meaningful and fulfilling life thereafter.
The transformation process that Egede Collins Chukwuebuka has just begun in the small but beautiful, calm and hospitable Lohdic, Rantya community, Jos, is the type that needs support and emulation by other well-meaning people.
Though, it is a long, demanding and tiring journey, it is also joyful, exciting and memorable. The benefits to reducing the consistently heightening tension in both urban and rural settlements are too numerous.
Nnabugwu Chizoba
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