Ogun: Airport will serve agro processing companies, others — Abiodun
Governor Dapo Abiodun has said that the Agro-Cargo Airport being constructed by his administration in Ogun State would serve as a conglomeration to agro-processing companies as well as aetropolis that have added value services, when completed
Abiodun spoke when he conducted the Chief Executive Officer, Arise Integrated Industrial Platform, Mr. Gagan Gupta, around the airport at Illisan-Remo, at the weekend.
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He noted that the airport it would also provide facilities for cargo processing, storage, warehouses, training centre, among others.
“This is an aetropolis; it is not just an airport but one that adds value services. The agro serving part is the most interesting, it is going to be a conglomeration of agro processing companies that take raw materials, turn them into finished goods. We will also have an aggregation centres, storage facilities for agro produce so that the agro processing centres will not run out of raw materials”, the governor said.
“This is a truly an international cargo airport. At the stage it is now, it is already attracting a lot of attention and investors. The Nigeria Customs Service and the Nigerian Air Force, which has requested for 100 acres of land to build their base and training school. Others have signified interest to build whare houses. Cargo companies have also applied to have their presence here.
“Those that want to go into hospitality business have applied to build hotels. We will also have demonstration farms that would be run through an outgrower scheme.
That is the entire gamut of what will be seen here, I don’t have any doubt that this airport in the first instance, will generate over 25,000 to 30,000 jobs”, the governor stated. Abiodun, who regretted that the project had been on the drawing board for many years, maintained the reason for embarking on the construction of the airport was economic gains through employment opportunities and the desire to keep the state as the nation’s industrial capital.
“This project started about 12 months ago and I promised that by God’s grace we will complete it in 18 months. We have gone round and see that the control tower is gradually coming out from the ground, we have driven on the runway which is four kilometres and have seen where the apron is. There is the administrative building of the control tower”, he said.
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