Esit Eket is an oil-rich area and home to part of the Dakkada oil palm estate, one of the largest palm plantations in the state.
Esit Eket is a Local Government Area in Akwa Ibom State. It is one of the oil-rich and historically significant LGAs in the state, with a strong cultural heritage and many natural resources.
I'm proud of what is being built in Esit Eket LGA: 8 projects recorded, 2 finished.
See the projects, with photos, here: https://umoeno.cavilconsult.com/lga/esit-eket/
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38 projects in the state summary. 8 are documented one by one here so far.
It has 10 political wards under INEC and 11 under AKISIEC, in three geopolitical zones called A, B and C. Wards and communities include Ekpene Obo, Ebe Ekpi, Ikpa, Uquo, Ebighi Okpono, Etebi, Mbakuyo, Akpautong, Edo Atai, Odoro Nkit and Afaha Ekpenedi.
Agriculture is a major economic activity. Farming and fishing give a large share of the people their living. The oil palm estate formerly called Akwa Palm Plantation, now Dakkada Global Oil Palm Ltd, covers the Esit Eket communities of Etebi Idung Assan, Ntak-Inyang and Etebi Akwata. The same estate runs into Mbo and Urue-Offong/Oruko LGAs.
Other places include Uquo, where the council chairman's lodge is being built, and Success City Polytechnic.
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Grants, welfare and support, kept apart from the projects that were built.
Four compassionate homes are handed over and six more are under way, giving vulnerable families three-bedroom bungalows with solar lighting and boreholes. The Ebe-Ekpi model primary health centre is commissioned and is designed to reduce long trips for basic care. Food distribution gave relief to vulnerable households.
The estate access road is complete, and rehabilitation of the Dakkada palm estate is expected to create farm and plantation work. Grants, equipment support and vehicles reached 176 people, with a total cash grant of 65,400,000 naira. The Idung Ayang road is expected to help farmers reach their land and move produce.
The 1.35km estate road is finished and the 2km Idung Ayang road in Ekpene Obo is under construction. The health centre at Ebe-Ekpi adds a care point in a rural ward.
How many of the 8 projects on this page back each goal.
Residents say work on the 2km Idung Ayang Road in Ekpene Obo is ongoing.
One resident says the Idung Ayang Road connects towards Edo and the Success City Polytechnic area.
A speaker says road projects in Ekpene Obo link the community to Efoi, Edo and other neighbouring communities.
A family head says the Idung Ayang Road has been the major problem in reaching their farmland.
A speaker from Ekpene Obo says roads there have opened up the village, allowed new buildings to go up and created another route into it.
Speakers point to easier access to farmland and to moving farm produce out as benefits of the Idung Ayang Road.
A former council leader describes the 1.35km main access road to the Dakkada Global Oil Palm estate as newly constructed and as a promise kept.
A speaker says the ARISE food items given out in Esit Eket came through the Bulk Food Purchase Agency.
A speaker says vulnerable women in Esit Eket received foodstuffs.
Governor Umo Eno
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