Another milestone in the Udom Emmanuel's Completion agenda and fulfilment of his campaign promise to industrialize the state, create opportunities for the teeming youths and provide avenues for wealth creation gave rise to Kings Flour Mill through the Public Private Partnership of Governor Udom Emmanuel administration.

Located at Mkpok-Okad Village, Onna LGA, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria, is the Kings Flour Mill which occupies 4.892 metres square of closed area with 47.406 metres square of open area.

The far-sighted Governor Udom foresaw the need to catapult Akwa Ibom into a state bubbling with industries and attract private Investors who will partner with the state to bring investment into Akwa Ibom.

Kings Flour Mill is built with high-tech full automated machines including: wheat flour milling machine, family workshop milling, flour milling plants, single sifter machine and the double roller mill.

It is worthy of mention that, the factory has different sections including the emergency unit, the administrative block, expatriates apartment, warehouse, tunnels for wheat and other raw materials.

The flour factory produces and packages wheat flour and semolina. With raw materials silos of over 15,000 tons capacity, the mill produces more than 500 metric tons of flour everyday and is capable of providing direct and indirect jobs for 1500 youths of Akwa Ibom State.

Agriculturist in the state are all out to explore the diverse opportunities that comes with the mill as Akwa Ibom is blessed with vast land area with good soil which is wheat friendly. This window will allow wheat farmers to venture into local production of wheat and also become major producers of raw materials for the mill.

Indeed Udom Emmanuel saw the future ahead and decided to turn Akwa Ibom into Nigeria's new industrial hub by creating industries and partnering with private Investors to bring investments to Akwa Ibom State.

~ Ini Mbang

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