Residents of Ibaka community in Ibaka Mbo Local
Government, Akwa Ibom Stae, southern Nigeria,
on Friday asked for N10 billion compensation to
allow the Federal Government start the Ibaka
Deep Seaport project.
The residents told journalists, who visited the
Ibaka Seaport site, that they were ready to
relocate for development of the area.
Mr Okon Udotong, spokesperson for the
community, said that they were not against the
project or development of the area.
”If the government wants to use the area for the
development of a seaport, we will support the
project.
“The area has over 1,000 hectares of land. At
least with N10 billion we can all relocate to other
areas.
”We know it will bring growth and development
as well as attract revenue to the government,”
Udotong said.
He said that the indigenes were worried that the
government had not contacted them since the
community got a report of the project.
”Our concern is where we will be relocated to. We
have lived here for over 20 years. Apart from the
indigenes, people from the East and West live and
transact business here,” he said.
Udotong said that the seaport, when completed
would decongest existing ports in Nigeria because
the project would be a trans-shipment port.
He said that the depth of the seaport would be of
an advantage to countries which shared borders
with Nigeria along the coast line.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that
the Ibaka project would be handled by the China
Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC)


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