Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State, has met with the five landlords of the communities of that will be donating their lands for the proposed, Obudu airport project.
The Governor who said he was delighted to be meeting with them, assured them of adequate compensation by the government for the Obudu airport project, saying that: “I absolutely understand the sacrifices they have made by giving up their land to see this project come to fruition.
“I also used the opportunity to enumerate the intention of this Obudu airport which is to provide cargo support services and export of ornamental and special flowers from the Obudu Cattle Ranch. As you are well aware, a country like Kenya does an average of 39 million Euros annually exporting flower from an altitude even less than that of Obudu cattle ranch,” he said.
Governor Ayade continued by adding that:
“So for Cross River State, we need to have an airport here to be able to assist us take advantage of the Obudu cattle ranch. More so Obudu Cattle Ranch is a beautiful place of nature which has been heavily under utilised because of access. So we are building an airport that can allow us benefit from the full potentials of the ranch.”
“We have very very essential elements to find which is the agricultural heritage of Cross River State and with all the precious stones available to us, the cargo airport will be very critical
Every single contributing village here today is excited about the potential of this airport. And we have also received the approval from the Federal Ministry of Aviation already.
We have all the necessary approvals and construction work is ongoing. We are working very hard to see that this airport is ready by the close of this year,” he added.