The Abia State Governor Alex Otti, has performed ground-breaking ceremony of the Abia Industrial and Innovation Park in Owaza, Ukwa West Local Government Area of the state.
Igbere TV gathered that the ceremony took place at the proposed site for the Industrial Park at Owaza, in the oil-producing area of Ukwa West LGA of Abia State.
Speaking during the event on Saturday, Otti said park, seating on over 1,000 hectares of land, would host multiple layers of businesses including modular refineries, petrochemical and fertiliser plants and several other chains of enterprises.
Otti who was accompanied by the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, disclosed that the park would take advantage of the oil and gas deposits in Ukwa, nearness to Aba and Port Harcourt cities, a seaport in the works, Export Processing Zone (EPZ), twenty four hours power supply and other components of the larger ecosystem within the community.
The governor pointed that out that the state had secured the support of a major stakeholder to build an innovation and incubation centre within the Park.
