Tourism development suffers setback with commissioner’s demise in Cross River

PEOPLES GAZETTE 

The Cross River government has said that the death of its commissioner for tourism, Abubakar Ewa, will be a setback to ongoing reforms in the sector.

Erasmus Ekpang, the information commissioner, said this in Calabar on Friday.

Mr Ewa, 61, who died on Wednesday at a private hospital in Calabar, was attending the state executive council meeting before being rushed to the hospital.

Mr Ekpang said the government and people of Cross River were deeply shocked and traumatised by Mr Ewa’s sudden death.