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Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Pres. Jonathan to inaugurate Akwa Ibom gas plant



President Goodluck Jonathan is to inaugurate a gas processing plant with 69km pipeline at Uquo, Esit Eket Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, on Thursday.
A statement by the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr. Aniekan Umanah, in Uyo on Tuesday, said the gas plant is constructed under a public-private partnership arrangement between Septa Energy and the Akwa Ibom State government.
Umanah added that the president, who is paying a fourth official visit to the state, will during the one-day visit also inaugurate the Goodluck Boulevard on Ring Road III in Uyo.


According to Umana, the president is also expected to perform the ground-breaking ceremony for a $1.8bn Methanol Plant at Ibeno, inspect the dualization works on the Uyo-Ikot Ekpene-Aba federal road, undertaken by the state government, inspect the first suspended bridge in the state currently under construction in Abak and thereafter inspect the 30,000 capacity Ibom International Stadium, Uyo, for which he laid the foundation stone in October 2012.
He stated that during Jonathan’s visit to Akwa Ibom in October 2012, he also commissioned the new digital governor’s office, alongside other completed projects of the Akpabio administration.
Umana stated that the president will also meet with a cross section of Akwa Ibom people in a banquet hall before departing for Abuja.

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