OWERRI — ABOUT 5,000 chicken broilers from the rehabilitated Imo Modern Poultry Company, Avutu, in Obowo Local Government Area will be ready for public consumption by March next year.
The company’s Managing Director, Mr. Feidi Labaschague, said this in Owerri, Monday when he met with the Imo Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Chief Soronnadi Njoku.
Labaschague gave an assurance that the level of production would increase as soon as the appropriate machinery for the company were put in place. He noted that the power generators and the power line in the company had been rehabilitated to enhance power supply to the establishment.
"A lot of work has been done on the generators and we expect manufacturers of the generators to give us the wiring diagramme to enable us to rectify the problems," Labaschague stated.
He, however, noted that the real technical problems of the company had been discovered and that the money required to solve them was in the budget. The managing director also gave an assurance that by the end of this month, there would be remarkable changes and improvements in the company and urged Imo people to expect the best from it.
Earlier, the Agriculture Commissioner had lamented that the government and people of Imo were becoming impatient with the delay in the take-off of the rehabilitated multi-million naira company.
Njoku said the government had created the necessary environment for the smooth take-off of the company and, therefore, urged the technical partners to expedite action in the rehabilitation of the company’s machines.
"Please quicken your processes and start production. Imo people want to see things happen in the poultry farm," he said.
The commissioner said the government would not interfere in the running of the company, "but a board of directors will be constituted as soon as possible for the smooth administration of the firm."
He, however, urged the management of the company to ensure that Imo indigenes were given priority in the employment of its middle level manpower. The Imo government had entered into an agreement with Hoven Group of Companies to manage the moribund poultry company It has 40 per cent shares in the company under the new arrangement.
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