Nigeria: Imoke Wants Guideline On Calabar Free Trade Zone Reviewed

6 September 2009

Calabar — Governor Liyel Imoke of Cross River State has called for the review of the guidelines on the status of the Calabar Free Trade Zone and Calabar Free Port to enable them plays their expected roles.

While receiving the board of the Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) led by its Chairman, Alhaji Abba Kabbo, Imoke averred that the legislation which established the Calabar Export Processing Zone in 1992 should be reviewed to meet its current status as a Free Trade Zone, adding that the gazette which established the Calabar Port as a Free Port since 2005 should be implemented.

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