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Akwa Ibom State has gone beyond debates on the functionality, or not, of the Poultry hatchery at Mbiaya Uruan. An assessment tour with the Commissioner of Information and Strategy, earlier Friday, confirmed that the State’s signature poultry project does a lot much more than sell day-old chicks. WHY THE HATCHERY The Udom Emmanuel led administration inherited a project site that was designated for a poultry hatchery facility. According to the Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on Technical Matters and Due Process, Mr. Ufot Ebong, who was also on the tour; “On the swearing-in of His Excellency, May 2015, he had promised industrialization. Afterwards, he actually informed his aides that you cannot hang industrialization on nothing. You must provide the raw materials. That’s where he came up with that statement “all you need is all you have”. By March 2016, we were able to get an investor from Ethiopia, Prime Poultry. They came in and we were given marching orders t

The expectation of Akwa Ibom people on the Udom Emmanuel led administration was generally that of wealth creation and proliferation of (both small and large scale) industries. We all just wanted to transit from highest ‘oil producing state’ to some other lofty title in the Economics of Nigeria. It has taken persistence and concentration, but through AKEES (Akwa Ibom Enterprise and Employment Scheme), Governor Udom has been able to whip up activity, specifically in production and Agriculture.  Some other day, we will discuss the tonnes of Tomatoes being harvested monthly from various farms in the State, the tremendous success of the Akwa Prime Poultry scheme and the trainings upon trainings on different relevant skills going on daily by AKEES. For today, I just want to revel in the pride of Akwa Ibom producing Pencils and Toothpicks in a time when Nigeria has been reeling under the woeful impact of overdependence on imports. In 2007, President Obasanjo fumed over N