As part of value addition to the state’s
tourism offering, the Cross River State governor, Prof. Ben Ayade, has
announced plans to build a beach resort in Calabar. Speaking during the
inspection of Nsidung Beach in Calabar South Local Government Area of
the state, the governor disclosed that construction work will start this
month.
He said: “It is obvious that as Cross
River State continues to blaze the trail in tourism, we must develop our
waterfronts in such a way that we find maximum value.”
The governor said, funding for the
project had been secured with a team of investors already setting aside
$3 million for the project. Governor Ayade, said that the resort will
complement the 2016 Calabar carnival, hinting that a boat regatta could
be in this year’s Calabar Festival calender.
Ayade who unveiled a resettlement plan
for the residents of the waterfront, said: “I do not believe in the
demolition of any property without adequate compensation. It could have
been any of us in that slum.”
Announcing the Deputy Governor, Prof. Ivara Esu as the desk officer for
the project, Ayade said that government will provide houses under its
social housing scheme, for those that will be relocated from the
waterfront. He said that the social housing scheme planned for the slum
dwellers will show the sensibility, sensitivity, softness and care
expected of a responsible government.
Earlier on arriving at the Margaret Ekpo
International Airport from Abuja, Ayade had announced a partnership
between Calabar and the city of Dortmund in Germany with the aim of
building houses that are dependent on renewable energy source for the
displaced people of Bakassi.
still managed a 4 per cent growth since the beginning of the year.
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