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""The focus of this government will be directed at ensuring the provision of infrastructure, (roads, power, water, healthcare, education) and in particular, the completion of key projects of the immediate past administration. These include the Ibom Power Plant, Science and Technology Park, Ibom Le' Meriden & Golf Resort, the International Airport, and the Akwa Ibom University of Technology, among others. Since then I have put in place a roadmap for actualising this vision in order to transform our infrastructural challenges from remaining as obstacles to becoming catalysts of poverty alleviation and sustainable development. This objective requires a positive and dynamic partnership between the public and the private sectors as has now become the norm across the globe."

 

 

"The present administration in the state is desirous of changing the situation as rapidly as possible. In this endeavour, we have dreamt big and we intend to actualise this dream in our generation."

 

 


Chart of Distribution of Akwa Ibom State Interministerial Projects Against Project Types

No longer a Mirage   

There are many good reasons why Akwa Ibom state is growing at the rate at which it is growing. The good road net work in the state forms the backbone that facilitates this growth. The state government has not left the state to share in the dilemma of bad roads which has become an embarrassing stigma in Nigeria.

How did this remarkable transformation come about? The governor of the state, Chief Godswill Akpabio did not drop from the moon. He has felt the agony of travelling on bad roads, he knows what it means to have your exhaust pipes fall of in the in the middle of nowhere because you fell into a pothole. And he promised that Akwa Ibom will not remain the same in his administration.
Administrative Speed Lane

Several link roads from Uyo the state capital to the different local governments are comfortable access roads. Vehicle owners are not in distress because their vehicles are used optimally in the state. The stress of very high maintenance budget experienced by many who reside in other parts of Nigeria is a problem they do not share.

 

Despite the good road network for which the state is well known, much of the state’s current success is attributed to the good sense of its present government. The year 2009 witnessed the dualisation of roads in the state especially access roads to the state capital from other states like the Calabar Itu road, while work is still on-going at the Itam junction where flyovers are being erected for easier access in and out of the state. Two good road relieves were constructed for Esit Eket in 2009 also.

Connected to Akwa Ibom Wide Web of Roads

Akwa Ibom state rural communities are not sidelined in this dividend that comes with good governance. The inter-ministerial projects committee for 2010 had since commenced commissioning of completed road projects in different local governments that are beneficiaries of this year’s road construction projects. Local governments like Abak, Ikono, Eket, Essien Udim, Uyo, and Oruk Anam got one each for themselves, Ikot Abasi and Itu got 2 for each commissioned for them also, while Onna local government received 4 roads.

The people have been advised to make good use of the opportunities that good roads afford its users to enhance their life worth.
Chart of Distribution of Akwa Ibom State Interministerial Projects Against Project Types
     
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