The 36 governors in the country have resolved that the $5.2 billion excess crude oil funds be channeled by the Federal government to improve the deplorable electricity supply.

Governor Godswill Akpabio,who dropped this hint in Uyo when Akwa-Ibom Medical Elders' Groups paid him a courtesy visit in his office, said he had already sent a bill to the House of Assembly proposing how to utilize the state's share of the fund for consideration and approval.

He revealed that his administration would soon link the 292 villages in the state to the national grid, hoping that by 2011 every village will enjoy electricity supply.

The governor further announced that government has a procured 800 trans formers for distribution to some communities. According to him, every hospital or clinic in the state will be provided with electricity for effective health-care services.

He said the Ibom Power Plant is about 90 per cent completed but that the non-completion of a transmission line is delaying the project from being switched on.

The president of the Medical Elders Groups, Dr. Edward Akpabio, whose address was read by Dr. Ime Udoh, commended the governor for the massive infrastructural development across the state, resolving the problem of striking doctors and construction of health institutions.

Dr. Akpabio called on the government to provide electricity supply, pipe-bone water and residential quarters to the three hospitals built by the out- gone administration.