Cross River Commences Rehabilitation Of 83km Roads To Cocoa Estate

Cocoa

The Cross River State Government has said that it has commenced the rehabilitation of a total of 83 kilometres stretch of roads in the various cocoa estates across the state.


This was revealed by the special adviser to the governor on cocoa development, Mr Oscar Ofuka, to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Calabar on Sunday.

He said that the road rehabilitation projects were in line with the determination of the Governor Ben Ayade-led administration to make cocoa the mainstay of the state’s economy.

He listed the projects as the 20.1-kilometre Abia-Bendeghe Road and the10.5-kilometre roads in the cocoa estates located in Abonita, Etung local government area of the state. Others are the 30.5-kilometre road in Ikom Cocoa Estate and the 20.2-kilometre road in the Cocoa Farm Plantation estate.

“The commencement of the rehabilitation of the access roads to the estates was to show the level of importance the state government attached to the development of cocoa. There is the need to keep the promise of the governor during his electioneering campaign that he would not privatise the cocoa estates in Cross River.

“The commencement of the exercise across the estates shows government’s desire to make cocoa farming in the state maximally productive and rewarding. This will enable beneficiaries of the smallholders’ scheme in the sector to reap the dividends of democracy,” he said.