The 130-year-old moribund Burutu Port, in
Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State will soon come alive as the state
government has reached an agreement with a private investor to revive it.
The
Commissioner for Oil and Gas, Mofe Pirah disclosed this when he led a
government team on a fact finding visit to the port to ascertain its potential.
He said
his team was at the site to observe efforts being made by the new investor to
bring the port back to life and ascertain areas where the state government
could help, especially the challenges facing the Akewa Business Group as it
commenced work on the port.
Pirah
said that when revamped, it would be capable of providing jobs for thousands of
unemployed youths and boost the state’s economy.
Earlier,
the Chief Executive Officer, Akewa Business Group, Kenneth Donye, said his company acquired the
port in 2005 from the Federal Government with the aim of reviving it, and had
reached an agreement with the Nigerian Ports Authority to run it as a
full-fledged port.
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