Less than a year into his first term, Governor Bassey Otu, is firmly but confidently steering the ship of Cross River State steadily to the coast of economic reawakening as could be gleaned from his recent inauguration of a multi-stakeholders committee to explore ways and means of bolstering palm oil, cocoa and coffee value chain in the state.
In optimising Cross River’s agro potentials, Governor Otu is living up to what his aggregate experience as a shrewd business administrator, banker and parliamentarian conferred on him. With its enormous size, Cross River State is South South’s bastion of huge, diverse agro production.
This was exactly the import of the governor’s timely recognition of the cocoa, coffee and palm oil value chain as a treasure trough and an unmined gold the state is sitting on. From the foregoing, it is obvious that the Otu-led administration’s well-thought-out plan to bolster palm oil, cocoa and coffee production in the state speaks to the enthralling trinity of economic growth, prosperity and progress which underpin the governor’s People First agenda and policy of his administration.
There is no doubt that Governor Otu’s intervention on the side of boosting cocoa and palm oil production in Cross River will address the concerns of stakeholders like Dr. Edemdem Ayito who owns New Palm Oil Processing Factory, a 10-tonnes per day palm oil facility located in Kasuk Qua, Calabar. Dr Ayito had lamented sometime ago that “we have a lot of Palm oil in Cross River but there is no value addition.
The visit of Fidelity Bank which came barely two days following the inauguration of Prof. Susan Ohen’s Committee was no doubt, an indication that the bank had carefully cracked through the governor’s vision. The landmark case of South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice has not ended the war in Gaza.
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