Over 10,000 jobs will be created in Cross Rivers State in one
year when Governor Ben Ayade’s business cluster comprising four different
ventures, including the garment factory becomes operational.
Special Assistant on Media and Chief Press
Secretary to Governor Ayade, Mr. Christian Ita, made the disclosure, after
conducting journalists round some projects in Calabar to ascertain the level of
progress made n them, as one of the projects (garment factory) is set for commissioning
by President Mohammadu Buhari soon.
Ita said: “The business cluster will
provide over 10,000 jobs to youths across the state while widows will be given
preference in employment in the factory that will produce uniforms for customs,
police, T-shirts, National Youth Service Corps, NYSC uniform among others.”
He said that the business plan which
encapsulates the garment factory, rice city which is a training centre that
will produce highly vitalized rice, a bio tech laboratory as well as a cosmetics
and pharmaceutical company will create over 10,000 jobs within one year and
will grow from there.
He added that the garment factory will
employ 3000 people, while the rice city will provide about 2000 jobs in
addition to the bio tech lab which will be a platform for manufacturing items
for modular houses, including the cosmetics and pharmaceutical companies that
will create over 5000 jobs for the teeming unemployed youths in the state.
According to Ita, “As you can see, many
youths from the state are already benefiting from the factory because they are
fully engaged as a result of the ripple effect, we are not using expatriates to
couple the complete knocked down, CKD machines they are fixing it themselves
because they have been trained in a skill acquisition programme to carry out
the work.”
Ayade promises to make Cross River Africa’s
industrial hub Cross River State governor, Professor Ben
Ayade, has said that his administration was determined to make the state a
construction hub in Africa.
Ayade in his Democracy Day broadcast said,
he has already done diligent planning to bring the plan to fruition.
“We are fully reloaded to make Cross River
State the construction hub for Africa. It is indeed difficult at this point in
time to hope perhaps that magic would be done.
“But with sincere commitment with the love
and fear of God with all your support, Cross River State indeed shall move from
3rd world to 1stworld under my watch,” he stated.
He pledged that his administration would
move “Cross River beyond the boundaries of hope and jobs to the horizons and
frontiers of content, bliss and happiness.”
“One year into our administration today, we
can assure you that victory, prosperity, success and an end to poverty and
unemployment is assured. As sharp hunters we won’t miss our mark. As custodians
of your collective trust, we would keep our promise.”
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