Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited plans to site a $35 billion gas-gasoline plant in Akwa Ibom State.   Governor Godswill Akpabio who was responding to a welcome address by the President of Akwa Ibom Community in Rivers State said the plant would be complete with harbour.  

He assured that his administration would provide a space for the company at the coastal area.

As part of plans to revitalize the economy of the state, he said his administration would improve the tourism and housing sectors particularly building of luxury apartments in the housing estate to attract more investors.  

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Chief Akpabio pledged his administration’s determination to bring about positive changes in the governance to improve the lots of the citizenry.

The state Chief Executive who appreciated them for helping in the development of the state economy appealed to them to invest at home as government will provide them the enabling environment.

On the request for the building of Ibom Unity Hall in Rivers State, the governor pledged to assist in building the project to cater for the interest of more than one million Akwa Ibom indigenes resident in Rivers state.

 The President of the community, Dr. Edet Essien commended the governor for his open-mindedness and fairness to all tribes in the state and for the massive roads projects and other infrastructural development, advising him to remain focused in the face of petitions and other distractions.

Dr. Essien hinted of the community’s plans to acquire land costing N15million to build Ibom Unity Hall in Port Harcourt and requested for government’s assistance in his direction.

The president also called on the government to appoint some of their members into some sensitive positions in the state, established Liaison office in Port Harcourt and sponsor some of them to the Holy land for pilgrimage.