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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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- Opening of new roads
- Dualisation of roads
- Rehabilitation of roads
- Building of drainages
- Construction of flyovers
Governor Godswill Akpabio has put in place a vigorous road construction and
rehabilitation scheme since 2007. With this scheme all headquarters
of the 31 local government councils have been linked with a 20km tarred road.
Several roads that had existed without attention since the inception of the state,
have been tarred by this administration. New roads are opened up and many are being
rehabilitated more than any other period in the history of Akwa Ibom State.
Contracts for road construction worth well over N80 billion for road segments totalling
330Km have been awarded to both foreign and local construction firms which include:
Ekim Itam – Ekom Iman road dualisation, Afaha-Obong – Ika – Etim Ekpo,
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Education
- Free education for the first nine years
- Targeted education to fight unemployment
- State-of-the-art digital library
- Accreditation of courses at our higher institutions
- Provision of digital center in AKS Polytechnic Ikot Osurua
- Renovation of at least 1 primary school and 1 secondary school in every local government
The state government intensified efforts at revamping the educational sector by
rehabilitating dilapidated schools and boosting the morale of teachers. Gov. Akpabio
introduced a free education policy for the first nine years in public schools and
has made the Akwa Ibom state University of Technology his priority educational
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- Free medical services for children, pregnant women and senior citizens
- Construction of specialist hospital
- Provision of 6 ambulances
- Re-constructed 65 health and educational facilities
- Provided 12 dialysis machines
- Provision of medical equipment to School of Nursing, Anua
- 700 Water projects
To uplift the health care delivery standard in the state, the administration has
built and donated a dialysis centre with 12 units of dialysis machines to the Federal
Medical Centre, Uyo. Free medical services have been introduced for children, pregnant
women, and senior citizens. While massive rehabilitation work has
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- Ibom Power Project
- Development of gas reserves for electricity generation
- Vigorous rural electrification scheme to place all rural areas on the national grid
- 800 electricity projects
The focus of government is provision of uninterrupted power supply in Akwa Ibom State, with
a surplus to be fed into the national grid through the Ibom Power Project. The project
is in two phases. The first phase is more than 90% completed with the installation
of 2 No. GE frame 6 and 1 No. frame 9 gas turbine, offering a total capacity of
180 MW, the installation of a 132/11KV transformer as well as the construction of
a 45km – 132 KV “double circuit power evacuation line from Ikot Abasi to Eket sub
station.
The second phase of the project is expected to generate an additional 465MW that
will feed the National grid through a transmission line to Afam sub station. The
132 KV transmission line between Eket, Uyo and Itu is to be straightened to
ensure the evacuation of the full capacity of the first phase
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Water Supply
- Provision of 27 pumping stations across the State with an installed capacity of
19,600 cubic metric tons of water per day
- Currently meeats water needs of over two million people daily
- collaboration with the Federal Government/World Bank water reforms
- N5billion provided for pipeline reticulation to affected areas
The administration plans to provide portable water supply all over the state by
2011 and has embarked on an aggressive programme to boost state-wide water
supply by providing individual access to 30 litres of water daily.
All 27 pumping stations are now backed up with diesel generators to guarantee a
minimum of 16 hours daily operation. In 2009 the Inter Ministerial Direct Labour
Coordinating Committee delivered 47 mini-water schemes across the rural
communities in the State supervised by the Ministry of Rural Development for
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- Runway and bypass, interim building, airport access roads, water and sewage
treatment facility and other buildings nearing completion
- Steel component for the Maintenance, Repairs and Overhaul (MRO) facility, for
the airport designed and fabricated in China have arrived Uyo and are being
installed
This is a special kind of airport that when completed will provide service
for the Gulf of Guinea and will be a big revenue earner for the state.
Akwa Ibom indegenes are trained to gracefully manage the demands of the aviation
industry as of Airport Maintenance Engineers, Airport and Power Plant Engineers,
Air Traffic Engineers, Air Traffic Controllers, Avionic Engineers, Aircraft
Rescue and Fire Fighting Personnel, Aprons Control Officers, Aprons Services
Officers, Safety Management Officers, Facilitation Officers, Marshallers, and
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- Emergency in food sector declared /li>
- Distributed 22 Tractors for farm operations
- Distributed modern fishing boats and outboard engines to fishermen
- Funding the payment of the State’s counterpart contributions to the National Fadama
Developement Programme
"We don't want to rely on oil, we are making efforts to re-engineer our agricultural
sector and increasing our internally-generated revenue," says Gov. Akpabio. The
present administration has reformed the agricultural sector and made it atractive
as a business venture. The government has put in place resources to
enhance profitable farming such as fertilizers, day old chicks, rabbits, agrochemicals,
cassava cuttings, improved seedlings and technical /extension services to farmers
through the Ministry of Agriculture and the Akwa Ibom State Agricultural Development
Programme (AKADEP).
In April, 2008 government got proactive and declared emergency in the food sector
as a pre-emptive measure to avert an imminent food crisis in the State
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Transportation
- 1,000 Vehicle Taxi scheme
- Solar powered traffic and street lights
- 12 haulage trucks for farm produce
- Construction of Akwa Ibom International Airport
- Construction of Seaport at Ibaka
- Planned railway line
The present administration has overhauled the transport sector in the state with
strategies for land, water, and air transport.
On land, government has introduced a brand new fleet of 1,000 taxis to move people
around commercially and the neccessary infrastructure and support network to make
it work. Further, government has propossed Uyo - Port Harcourt railway line to ease
the movement of goods and persons in the region. On water, government is building
the Ibaka seaport that will rival other seaports in the country and place the state
on the regional map of West Africa
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- Overhauled a dilapidated government house and constructed a new state of the art
edifice
- Built government liaison office in Abuja
- Le Meridian Hotel completed with 153 rooms to a 5-star standard
- Implementing erosion control plans for Uyo
- 1,500 owner-occupier housing units built across Ikot Ekpene, Uyo, Eket; senatorial
districts
The administration is delivering quality housing as a set of coordinated system
of urban infrastructure to mitigate the dysfunctions associated with urbanization.
Along with these are such tangible infrastructure as good access roads, hospitals,
standardized schools, sewerage, leisure parks, shopping malls, and markets and other
civic buildings. The proposed 10,000 Housing Units across the 3 senatorial districts
promises to bring affordable housing to the people
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- Review of Uyo Master Plan to align with modern town planning considerations
- Land/sites acquired for residential, commercial and Industrial purposes
- Realocation and ressetlement of affected land owners
- Land bank System establishment
The administration has developed an efficient mechanism that will accelerate the
pace of orderly physical development and control within the State.
The siting of a sea port in Ibaka; a 5-star Hotel in Uruan; an International Airport
in Okobo; the IPP in Ikot Abasi; the ongoing Security Village in the 31 Local Government
Areas; the proposed 10,000 Housing Units across the 3 senatorial districts; the
Itam flyover project intersecting Uyo and Itu LGAs; the Tropicana Galleria in Uyo;
an Ultra Modern Evening Market and Timber Market at Itam, Itu LGA, all captures
the essence of the state government’s integrated urban renewal strategy
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- 550 Interministerial people oriented projects
- 31 graders for grading of rural roads
- 31 mobile ambulances for rural healthcare
- 31 Hilux pickups for rural security and surveilance
The administration of Governor Godswill Akpabio is sustainably developing and
transforming the rural areas of Akwa Ibom State with a view to making them the
engine room of Nigerian industrialisation. The challenge of developing an 80%
rural population into bustling economic and commercial centres is being
addressed through prvision of basic infrastructures such as roads, school
buildings, primary health facilities, civic buildings, electricity, and water.
Government policy on community development is participatory which shows that
development is a serious affair in the act of governance and imposes strong
obligations and responsibilities on both the people and the government.
The administration has carried out electrification of 237 villages with a view
to linking all communities to the national grid. Water points are being provided
such that they serve between 250 to 300 people. Healthcare providers and
educationists in the rural areas have been empowered and motivated to for
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