Ayade Signs C’River Infrastructure Fund Bill Into Law

Governor Ben Ayade of
Cross River State has signed the State’s Infrastructure Fund Bill into law. The law empowers Government to seek for funds for its capital projects that would add value to the lives of the citizenry.
Speaking at the signing ceremony witnessed by members of the State House of Assembly led by the Speaker, Rt. Hon. John Gaul Lebo and the State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Ntufam John Okon, Governor Ayade, said the bill intended to cater for the people.
Governor Ayade, while expressing his appreciation to the lawmakers for the passage of the bill into law said, “I specially thank you because you recognized the challenges ahead of us, particularly when you juxtapose them with the pregnant hope we have given to our people, inspiring them, giving communities dreams beyond their limits of reasoning, beyond bounds of human expectations, it is a huge challenge.”
According to Ayade, “That change is not something brains alone can deal with. The governor alone cannot deal with it, it requires you and I, it requires the three tiers of government and I am humbled that the legislature is taking the lead in driving the executive’s ambition.”
The Governor noted that the cooperation of the lawmakers was the kind of synergy required for Cross River to move forward and become a leading state among the comity of states in Nigeria.
He observed that the Infrastructure Fund Law was an indication that the deep seaport, super highway, garment industry, haulage city, modular refinery, and other projects were achievable based on the philosophy guiding development economy which is to provide infrastructure for the economy to grow.
Earlier in his remarks, the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, Hon John Gaul Lebo, noted that the legislature’s support for the fund was predicated on the fact that”The law provides how welfare can be rendered to its people and the legislature owes it a duty that whatever is required by law is given a speedy order and we owe the governor an obligation to move ahead by deliberating on it speedily.”

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