4 minutes with… Ezekiel Oyediji, Managing Director/CEO, Elzek Multilink Services & Investment

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy.

Elzek Multilink Services & Investment[E M S I]LTD.is a private limited liability company duly registered in Nigeria.This is a small company that is aspiring to grow big with the co-operation of a Technical Partner to go into ethanol production as Biofuel by taking advantage of cassava as feedstock that is readily available in Nigeria.

Tell us about your role and what you are focused on in the next 12 months.

My role as the Managing Director/ C E O is in the area of strategic Planning mainly in the areas of mining and manufacture of ethanol as biofuel. Our company’s objective is to add value to our Agriculture & Natural resources in order to generate employment and exploit these resources. By production of billets and ingots from available mineral resources and production of ethanol from cassava this will serve as input to local industries and for export. To be able to achieve this objectives we have identified the need for technical partners/Investors. Currently we are working on business plans, however this cannot be completed without the input from such technical partner.

What do you feel are the most important milestones the industry must achieve in the next 5 years?  

>Production a business plan

> Getting a Technical Partner/Investor

>Setting up of out-growers to produce the needed quantity of cassava from high yielding varieties.

> Getting export market