• Says the Trans Kalabari Highway will stimulate development and economic growth

By PHC Telegraph

Governor Siminalayi Fubara has revealed why his administration is astutely executing strategic projects that will facilitate socio-economic growth and development in Kalabari Land.

The Governor spoke when he received a delegation of Kalabari monarchs, elders political leaders, women and youths at Government House led by the  His Royal Majesty, King Disreal Gbobo Bobmanuel, Amayanabo of Abonnema.

Fubara said that he had courageously embarked on critical projects in order to stimulate development and lay a solid base for the present and future progress of Kalabari Land.

Noting that previous administrations avoided executing the original plan for the Trans-Kalabari Road project as a result of its cost implications, he has taken bold steps to link the Kalabari speaking areas to the State capital.

“Somebody said, if I don’t do it for my people, who will do it for them”, the Governor recalled, saying “We ventured into the Trans-Kalabari Road, we didn’t close our eyes. Our eyes were open because we knew what we were entering into.”

“It is not a joke; it is a big project. We believe that at the end of that project, the level of development that it will attract to that line of entry into Kalabari will be very unprecedented.

“Issues of insecurity from our waterways will be reduced because, at that point we are doing road, people won’t be using the river anymore. The cost of living will also be cheaper.”

“So, you understand that your interest, your safety, your development is key to us. It is not about the number of years that we are going to be here; what is important to this government is the impact we make while we are here”, the Rivers Governor remarked.

In his speech, the leader of the delegation and Amanyanabo of Abonnema, King Disreal Gbobo Bobmanuel, expressed the profound thanks of the Kalabari people to Governor Fubara for his genuine love for them, as evidenced in the types and quality of development projects delivered or being executed in the area.