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A consortium of foreign investors who visited Akwa Ibom to avail themselves of business opportunities have felicitated the former governor, Udom Emmanuel on the completion of the Maintenance, Repair/Overhauling (MRO) and, the International Wing facilities at the Victor Attah International Airport saying, the airport is capable of handling aircraft’s repair and maintenance.
The group, which completed their two-day tour of the state on Friday, said they are satisfied with the facilities which can earn foreign 
exchange for the state. He said, the state also has arable land and a good road network and, promised to establish its presence in the area of aeronautical and aviation development in Akwa Ibom soon.
The team leads, Engr. Roy MacPherson said, the state is blessed with abundant human and natural resources, if appropriately harnessed would impact the well-being of the state. He said the development of any society hinges on the people and urged the new administration to focus on building the people to sustain the tempo of what he saw else, the contributions of past regimes would be vanity.
Engr. MacPherson, who was accompanied by Engr. (Dr.) Nicholas Ekpoette from Australia thanked the former governor for completing those projects he described as life-touching at the airport and expressed the optimism that, Akwa Ibom would be investors’ destination in Africa in a few years to come.
He said, “I am impressed by what we saw on the ground here and, we hope more would be done to attract my colleagues to be here also. Akwa Ibom seems to be a peaceful state and, I believe the former governor Udom did well there; as an important ingredient of development. We pray every successive administration of this place would sustain the tempo so that Akwa Ibom would be greater than what we saw in a couple of years to come”.
