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The Atta Oro and Paramount Ruler of Okobo section authorities country of Akwa Ibom state, His Eminence, Edidem Ita Okokon, has applauded politician Umo Eno, for investing successful the Akwa Ibom State Rural Access and Agricultural Marketing Project (AKS-RAAMP).
He noted that the dividends of the task has manifested successful the ongoing operation and carnal betterment of Atabong formation marketplace successful Okobo LGA.
Edidem Okokon, expressed the appreciation successful his palace, during a citizens engagement forum organised by AKS-RAAMP for stakeholders of the marketplace and its environs “to fortify their buy-in, enactment and practice with a presumption to enhancing the seamless advancement and accomplishment of the project.”
The monarch pointed retired that “Atabong formation marketplace is the center-point of crayfish successful Nigeria,” noting that “people travel each the mode from Abuja and Lagos to bargain here.
Igbo people, Cross River and others besides travel here.”
According to the accepted ruler, “without the governor’s determined absorption connected agrarian improvement and his fulfillment of applicable World Bank protocols, AKS-RAAMP would not person been empowered to intervene connected the market.”
He besides expressed restitution with the information arrangements by ,government successful the proviso of gunboats to patrol the waterways, regretting that infiltration of the marketplace and the environs by oversea pirates had been detrimental for concern activities implicit the years.
“I privation to counsel that erstwhile the marketplace is completed, fto the politician support 1 gunboat astatine the centre betwixt Ishiet and Oron, which is the entranceway to Atabong to further warrant security,” helium appealed.
In the aforesaid vein, the Atabong Clan Council’s pistillate person and mean standard crayfish trader, Obonanwan Affiong Etim Asuquo, described the involution arsenic a boost to women, who represent the bulk of traders successful the market.
“We are precise grateful to the authorities for the intervention. It is going to beforehand import and export from Atabong formation market, arsenic we volition summation our mainstay concern of crayfish and besides diversify to different goods to turn our incomes.”
The Vice Youth President of Atabong Clan, Prince Edet Effiong, conveyed the gratitude and restitution of each and sundry crossed the country to the State governor, the World Bank, French Development Agency and AKS-RAAMP, for the gesture.
“We, the youths are moving precise good successful harmony with the contractors; we person mobilised our interior information to guarantee information passim the duration of the occupation due to the fact that we each emotion and invited the project,” helium assured.
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