Ayade under fire over ‘signature projects’, unfulfilled promises

A group, Movement for Restoration of Cross River State, says Governor Ben Ayade’s signatory projects have failed as none has taken off fully.

On assumption of office, Ayade promised to embark on three signature projects, including the 260 km Super Highway, Deep Sea Port and Garment Factory.

Over two years after the vow, none of the projects has been actualised.

A statement made available to DAILY POST and signed by Comrade Duke Duke Etim, coordinator; Justine Abgor Comrade, secretary general and Paulinus Simeon Oko, Publicity secretary, regretted the state of the projects.

“The Governor is still deluding Cross Riverians with empty promises, signing MOUs without practicalizing it and still building castle in the air.

“The deep sea port and super highway are now a mirage, and the so-called new cities are latest joke of the century.

“The power plant claimed to have been completed has generated no single megawatts at least to cushion the power outage within the metropolis.

“Garments Factory, one year after, has not manufactured even a single T-shirt for the poor to wear, the much publicised multi-billion naira mega rice city for vitaminised rice project and industrial city projects could be described as white elephants,” the group lamented.

Continuing, it noted that the civil service is totally dead and buried.

“Offices have no single stationeries to generate memos, let alone power to type the memos. The state is now like a PLC. It is that bad in our state. In spite of these, the factory has continued unabated. The latest is the N1.3tr 2018 budgetary estimates.

“At the Assembly, the Governor struggled to present the estimates after several postponements due to irreconcilable differences between him and the Law makers over the breakdown.”

The group further fumed that Governor Ayade promised to create 3, 000 jobs at garment factory and Green Police (now Green Sheriff) but that almost three years, none of those dreams have come to reality.

“He also promised to build three new cities across the three senatorial zones namely, Calasvegas, Centicourse and Noatradams, all within his first term. Regrettably, nothing to show. His acclaimed industrialization policy is hogwash.”

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