NASWDEN Inaugurates Northern Executives As National President Solicits FG’s Financial Support For Members

The National Association of Scrap and Waste Dealers Employers of Nigeria, NASWDEN, has inaugurated its Northern Regional Executives and the 19 Northern States Executive Council

On the occasion in Abuja, the National President of NASWDEN, Engr. Ogbu Luke Uchechukwu said the inauguration was to ensure effective and professional coordination of activities of members of the Association in the Northern part of Nigeria.

Engr. Ogbu Luke Uchechukwu said the inauguration was also part of measures towards achieving the objectives of NASWDEN in the areas of overseeing the activities of all scrap dealers in Nigeria, help the Federal Government to ensure that its members work with security agencies in Nigeria, reduce the rate of vandalism of national infrastructures and to checkmate illegality among scrap dealers nationwide among others.

According to him, measures have already been put in place a Task Force to checkmate cases of buying and selling of stolen items among its members in the FCT and the 36 States of the Federation.

Engr. Ogbu Luke Uchechukwu who said the inauguration was among other things to further achieve the aims and objectives of the Association stated that the Association was working with security agencies towards upholding the integrity of its members in the course of carrying out their legitimate businesses

“In 2024 here in Abuja, we launched a Task Force called”Operation Say No To Vandals” and we did it in collaboration and support of the Inspector General of Police then alongside the Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, as well as other security agencies and the purpose of this is to enable the Task Force to go and supervise what our members are loading to make sure that non of them load a stolen Government’s or individuals property in the name of scrap to supply to any user’s company” He stated.

In his words “We also designed what is called”Clearance “and the work of this clearance is to is after supervision at the loading point and you’re found loaded genuinely without anything incriminating, the State’s Chairman of NASWDEN with the State’s Monitoring Team Chairman will issue what we call Clearance to assertain that that what the person has loaded is genuine and if otherwise, the Monitoring Team will handover the victim to security agent for necessary action and prosecution “.

Engr Ogbu Luke Uchechukwu who said NASWDEN has over the years been contributing to economic development of Nigeria solicited State and Federal Government support for its members nationwide towards realizing the objectives of the Association

While advising the newly inaugurated Northern executives of the Association, Engr Ogbu Luke Uchechukwu stressed the need for them to shun act detrimental to the objectives of NASWDEN.

Some newly Northern executives who spoke during their inauguration promised not to betray the confidence reposed in there.

Highpoint of the inauguration ceremony was the presentation of appointments letters to the newly inaugurated Northern executives of NASWDEN.