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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."
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"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."
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Water is a life essential, and good potable water is what nobody ever takes for
granted. Akwa Ibom state government has not wished for her people a waterless life.
More than that, the state government is not waiting for water.org to come and provide
safe drinking water to her people rather she is working assiduously to make sure
that women and children no longer walk miles to collect water for their families
from streams and rivers.
In 2010, Akwa Ibom state government, also in line with the propositions of world
water day 2010, adopted the UN theme of water quality, reflecting its importance
alongside quantity of the resource in water management. Therefore in its bid to
ensure that the trouble of walking long distance for water is minimized to its barest
minimum, the administration of Governor Godswill Akpabio took it up as a challenge
to make potable water accessible to its populace through the installation of bore
holes in their rural communities all over the state. |
Subsurface Alignment
Pleasant to note is that in one of the villages where a borehole was also commissioned
in the on-going inter-ministerial project commissioning by the same administration
for the year 2010, Mrs. Uyayi, a woman who did not find the previous absence of
a portable water in her community funny, when asked, how she feels to have potable
water closer and drinkable, did not hesitate to display her satisfaction through
a few dance steps.
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It is amazing the zeal that envelops the Godswill Akpabio led administration in
the provision of potable water in the rural communities. A total number of 122 boreholes
are ready to be commissioned this year, 2010.
In 2009, twenty two local government councils got 47 boreholes spread across for
them as their size and need warrants. In 2008, when the present administration was
just one year in office, governor Akpabio commissioned a number of 3 boreholes in
Eket, 2 in Etim Ekpo, 1 in Etinan, 2 in Ibiono Ibom, 1 each in Ikono, Ikot Abasi,
Ikot Ekpene, Ini, Mbo, Nsit Atai, Nsit Ubium, Onna,Oruk Annam, Uran, Urue Offong,
Oruko, while Okobo got 3, Mkpat Enin 2, and Uyo 2 to a total of 28 boreholes. |
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