Akpabio says Ibaka Seaport will Create 70000

Jeddah Seaport, Saudi Arabia

The Ibaka seaport will create 70,000 jobs upon completion says the Akwa Ibo State Governor, Godswill Akpabio.

The governor disclosed this to newsmen at the Nnamdi Azikwe Airport in Abuja after returning from an Investment Summit in the USA and Canada.

He said the deep sea port goes beyond a State or Federal project, calling it a Nigerian project.

His words: “I don’t even see it as a Federal Government Project. For me, any project that is capable of creating about 50-70,000 jobs is a project that all Nigerians should support.”

He said, “There were a lot of dividends from the investment summit organized by Ibom indigenes in the United States and Canada under what they called Akwa Ibom Diaspora Network. They did an exposition of the available potentials in investment in Akwa Ibom state.

“I can tell you that for me that will be the first Diaspora group in Nigeria to undertake such a business venture at their own cost. They were able to bring together top executives of various companies spread across the entire world to discuss what they could do in Nigeria. For me, I was very happy on seeing the interest the foreign investors still have in Nigeria despite the various problems we have.”

“The foreign investors have expressed confidence that the economy under President Goodluck Jonathan would definitely turn around and the fact that despite the seeming security challenges in Nigeria, it is still good for major investments to take place in Nigeria, he added.

“The outside world is still seeing Nigeria as a very veritable haven for major investments. So I want to thank my people in the United States of America, Canada and United Kingdom and we pray that Nigerians in the Diaspora from various states of the federation would see the need to come together and see what they can do to contribute their quota towards job creation. looking at it from the angle of Nigeria without oil, with improved power supply and improved agricultural sector particularly in terms of the value chain.”