A shoe factory designed to produce desert and regular military boots and fashion shoes is set to open in Akwa Ibom State.
The factory which is to be located in Mkpat Enin urban, Mkpat Enin local government area, is part of the industrialisation drive of the council chairman designed to empower the people and advertise the area.
Speaking to journalists yesterday in Uyo, the Chairman of the Mkpat Enin LGA, Mr. Ekanem Brown, said military boots and cortina shoes would be the major products of the factory and shoes manufactured in the state would soon flood the market.
Brown also revealed that he acquired 150 hectares of land for integrated farming in tomatoes, pepper, ginger, cucumber, cocoa and plantain, and that the tomatoes and pepper farm currently employed 27 people.
“In our determination to key into Governor Udom Emmanuel’s industralization drive and agricultural development programmes for the purpose of creating employment and generating additional income to the local government area, we have revamped the abandoned shoe factory of the local government and ventured into integrated agricultural development programme,” he said.
