- Set to retrieve stolen CRS property!
Cross River State governor, Bassey Edet Otu, has disclosed that the state is set to take delivery of five new aircrafts, to help ease movement in and out of the state capital, as well as function too as an investment option for the state.
Otu who made this disclosure yesterday, Thursday, during a media parley and dinner with journalist in the state, further maintained that, “no state capital will want to grow the way we want to grow without having proper scheduled flights that help people come in and go out as planned. If they can’t find flights like is the current situation, obstructions to achieving business or leisure plans will take place.”
He also hinted that the Margaret Ekpo International airport will soon wear a new look. “You are going to see a different airport soon; the runway is going to be extended to accommodate bigger aircrafts and the new ones we are going to acquire.
On the Obudu International Cargo Airport, Otu said he was working to complete it, “because it is very clear that there’s going to be a very serious economy in Obudu which we are very interested in. We want to make sure that that economy kicks off as quickly as possible.”
For property belonging to the Cross River State Government, believed to have been pilfered by some persons in the last administration, the governor came clear that, “they were issues with some of those who stole our properties; the properties of CRS. If these people are frowning because we want to retrieve our properties as a state, I don’t mind.”
At the event, also attended by the deputy governor, Peter Odey former CRS governor, Clement Ebri, former presidential aide, Florence Ita-Giwa, CR APC Chairman, Alphonsus Eba, the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, in CRS, used the event to introduce her new Archibong Bassey led executive to the governor.
