Ma'aikatar Karfe ta Ajaokuta

Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited (ASCL) wanda aka fi sani da Ajaokuta Steel Mill ita ce ma'aikatar ƙarfe a Najeriya, da ke Ajaokuta, Jihar Kogi, Najeriya.  An gina shi a kan shafin 24,000 hectare (59,000 acres) tun daga 1979,  shine mafi girman ma'aunin ƙarfe a Najeriya, kuma tukunyar cokali da kayan masarufi sun fi girma fiye da duk masu tsabtace a Najeriya.  Koyaya, ba a gudanar da aikin ba kuma ya kasance ba cikakke ba bayan shekaru 40. Kashi uku cikin huɗu na hadaddun an watsar da su, kuma kawai an sanya ma'adanai masu haske don ƙirar ƙarami da samar da sandunan ƙarfe.

 Tarihi 
An fara ba da kyautar binciken yiwuwar samar da ƙarfe ga Burtaniya, kuma daga baya Tarayyar Soviet ta gudanar da shi a ƙarƙashin yarjejeniyar hadin gwiwa tare da Najeriya. A cikin 1967, masana Soviet sun ba da shawarar neman ma'adinin ƙarfe a Najeriya, saboda sanannun ajiya ba su da inganci don yin ƙarfe. A cikin 1973, an gano ma'adinin ƙarfe na ingancin da ake buƙata a Itake, Ajabanoko, da Oshokoshoko. An kafa kamfanin Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited a shekarar 1979 a karkashin Shugaba Shehu Shagari wanda ya fara aikin wanda aka kammala kashi 84% a lokacin da aka cire shi daga ofis a shekarar 1983. Ginin ƙarfe ya kai kashi 98% a cikin 1994, tare da 40 daga cikin shuke-shuke 43 a wurin da aka gina.

Don samar da ma'aunin ƙarfe na Ajaokuta tare da albarkatun kasa da kuma haɗa shi da kasuwar duniya, a cikin 1987, an ba da kwangila ga kamfanin gini Julius Berger don gina Warri_Railway" id="mwJQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Warri–Itakpe Railway">Hanyar jirgin kasa ta farko ta Najeriya, daga ma'adinan ƙarfe a Itakpe zuwa ma'aikatar ƙarfe a Ajaokuta, kuma daga baya ya ci gaba zuwa Tekun Atlantika a Warri. Koyaya, ayyukan biyu ba a gudanar da su ba. Har yanzu ba a kammala ginin ba shekaru arba'in bayan an fara gini.

A shekara ta 2002, gwamnatin Najeriya a karkashin Olusegun Obasanjo ta ba da aikin ga Kobe Steel na Japan a cikin ƙoƙari na sake farfadowa, duk da haka ba tare da nasara ba. A shekara ta 2004, an sake canja aikin, a wannan lokacin zuwa Masana'antar Ispat. Kasuwancin ya sami tallafin Global Infrastructure Holdings Limited (GIHL) (yanzu Global Steel Holdings Limited, GSHL), wanda ke karkashin jagorancin mashahurin karfe na Indiya Pramod Mittal. Yarjejeniyar ta ƙare a shekara ta 2008 bayan da gwamnati ta zargi GIHL da satar dukiya. GIHL daga nan ta kai karar Najeriya a Majalisar Kasuwanci ta Duniya .  An fara warware rikicin ne a cikin 2016, tare da Najeriya ta sake samun iko da Ajaokuta Steel Mill a musayar GIHL ta riƙe Kamfanin Ma'adinai na Iron Ore na Najeriya (NIOMCO) da ke aiki a Itakpe. A cikin 2022, gwamnatin Najeriya ta biya dala miliyan 496 ga GSHL don warware da'awar.

Har yanzu, kamfanin Ajaokuta Steel Mill bai samar da takardar ƙarfe guda ɗaya ba a watan Disamba na shekara ta 2017. A ƙarshe an sanya ma'adanai masu haske a cikin 2018 don ƙaramin ƙira da kuma samar da sandunan ƙarfe. Koyaya, an watsar da kashi uku cikin huɗu na shuka, gami da manyan kayan aiki da hanyar jirgin ƙasa ta ciki.

A cikin 2019, a taron koli na Rasha da Afirka a Sochi, Shugaban Najeriya Muhammadu Buhari da takwaransa na Rasha Vladimir Putin sun amince da sake farfado da ma'aikatar ƙarfe tare da goyon bayan Rasha. An kafa wata kungiya a cikin gwamnatin Najeriya tare da hangen nesa don sake fasalin aikin tare da kudade daga Afreximbank da Cibiyar fitar da Rasha. Koyaya, annobar COVID ta jinkirta kuma a ƙarshe ta rushe waɗannan tsare-tsaren.Adekoya, Femi (2023-01-13). "Ajaokuta Steel Plant: Like refineries, a story retold, promises unkept". The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News. Archived from the original on 2023-01-24. Retrieved 2024-01-10.

A watan Janairun 2024, gwamnatin Najeriya ta ba da sanarwar cewa ta fara tattaunawa da kamfanin karafa na kasar Sin Luan Steel Holding Group tare da manufar farfado da masana'antar karafa ta Najeriya, gami da samar da kayan aikin soja a Ajaokuta Steel Mill . 

 Jirgin kasa 
Jirgin kasa na Warri-Itakpe ya lalace, kuma an lalata wani ɓangare na waƙar. A cikin 2016, gwamnatin Najeriya ta ba da kwangila ga Kamfanin Injiniyan Injiniya na China da Julius Berger don gyarawa da kammala hanyar jirgin ƙasa. Gwajin ya fara ne a watan Nuwamba na shekara ta 2018,  kuma Shugaba Muhammadu Buhari ne ya kaddamar da hanyar jirgin kasa a hukumance a ranar 29 ga Satumba 2020. 

 Rashin amincewa 
A cewar mai tsara kudi na Najeriya da kuma mai ba da shawara kan dabarun tattalin arziki Kalu Aja, jerin gazawar manufofi sun hana kammala aikin ƙarfe na Ajaokuta kuma ya fara aiki shekaru 40 bayan an fara gina shi. Aja ta yi jayayya cewa dole ne a gamsu da manyan buƙatu guda uku kafin ma'aikatar ta iya samar da ƙarfe: Kamfanin Ma'adinai na Iron Ore na Najeriya (NIOMCO) da ke aiki a Itakpe dole ne a fara sarrafa ƙarfe na Najeriya kafin ya dace da samar da ƙaramin ƙarfe; layin jirgin ƙasa na Itake zuwa Aja dole ne ya yi aiki don tabbatar da ci gaba da samarwa; kuma wutar lantarki mai fashewa dole ne ya kasance mai aiki. Blast furnaces suna aiki a kai a kai na shekaru a lokaci ba tare da rufe su ba don haka suna buƙatar wadataccen wadata. Aja ya kammala, cewa tun lokacin da babu wani daga cikin bukatun uku da aka cika, ba a taɓa kunna murhu a Ajaokuta ba saboda Ajaokuta ba ta taɓa samun albarkatun kasa don tabbatar da ci gaba da samarwa.

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