Work on the N8.3
billion leather and garment cluster in Obingwa in Abia State will
resume in March, Chidibere Ukaegbu, the managing director of the
layout, has said.
Mr. Ukaegbu, who is
the chairman and chief executive of Futuristic Development Ltd., on
Thursday, said that the contractors abandoned the project in the heat
of the kidnapping in the state.
“The project was
not abandoned as being speculated. We and the contractors moved out of
site for safety,” he said, adding that the clearing of the 19.2
hectare-land would continue.
The clearing of the
site, which started in September 2009, was abandoned by the contractors
owing to the level of insecurity in the state, especially in Obingwa.
