Three international companies, Arik Air Ltd, General Electric (USA), and Rockson Engineering Ltd, have begun talks for takeoff of a business partnership to boost the nation’s power and aviation sub-sectors.
Chairman of Arik Air, MD Rock Engineering Ltd.,Sir Joseph Arumemi Ikhide dropped the hint at the end of preliminary discussions with the chairman of General Electric, Sir Jeffrey Immelt in Abuja. The two held closed-door meeting to fine tune the multi billion naira partnership.
According to Arik chairman, the collaboration with the American energy giant is expected to generate 3,000 megawatts of electricity in the country. He maintained that the partnership was critical to helping to boost power generation and ensuring steady power supply.
Ikhide who expressed satisfaction with prospects of the partnership, said the deal would be a direct foreign investment into Nigeria, courtesy of Rockson Engineering and Arik Air.
“Arik Air, Rockson Engineering, and General Electric in the United States are currently holding preliminary business discussion to have a partnership in the area aviation and power generation in the country.
“We hope to generate about 3,000 megawatt of electricity from the power project.We also will partner with GE to boost our aviation sector. So it’s really a big project we are looking at. I believe that the fact that Sir Immelt is here in Nigeria to meet with us on this venture is a big boost to our country and we are very confident that it will be fruitful”, he said.