Vanguard
23 December 2008
Abuja — THE Executive Secretary, State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), Cross River State, Vincent Ejermot Aquah disclosed yesterday that plans have been concluded to resettle over 750 displaced families from Bakassi to the resettlement permanent site in Ikpri Ikang in the new Bakassi Local Government.
Speaking with journalists in Abuja yesterday after receiving a National Merit Award Honour as Member of the Order of the Niger , Ejermot Aquah, who noted that the United Nation has set up its office in Calabar, Cross River State to design modalities on how the Bakassi people could be assisted, stressed that SEMA was discussing with the National Refugee Commission to put in place different skill acquisition for the people to enable them have better skill that would sustain their future.
Aquah, who coordinated the search, which led to the recovery of the missing Beechcraft Air Craft that crashed on its way to Obudu on the 16th of March 2008, said the houses in the permanent sites have been completed and the resettlers would soon move into those structures, adding that the agency was aware of the possible predicament that they may likely face following the change of occupation and migration from the Peninsula.
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