Reps Make Case For Ayade’s Deep Seaport Project

Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs and ad-hoc Committee on Ports, Hon Yusuf Buba Yakub, has called on the Federal Government to grant Cross River State a sovereign guarantee to ensure the construction of its deep seaport, the Bakassi deep seaport.
Yakub, who led members of his committee on a courtesy call on the State governor, Prof Ben Ayade, said the Bakassi Deep Seaport project should not be seen as that of the state, but rather as one that would benefit the entire country, especially Northern Nigeria and neighbouring countries of Chad and Niger Republics.
The Committee was in the state as part of their oversight functions to investigate why ports in the eastern part of the country were not functioning optimally.
“This committee will do everything possible to ensure that the Deep seaport project comes to fruition because the port is not for Cross River, but Nigeria and the whole of Africa, and by extension other parts of the world as many countries want to do business with Nigeria,” Yakub stated.
According to him, a country like China  wants to bring in a lot of heavy machinery to start up the industrialization of Nigeria but because we don’t have deep seaports some of the big vessels cannot bring in these equipment.

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