Breaking: Tourism Commissioner dies after attending Executive Council meeting

By David Odama

The Cross River State Commissioner for Tourism, Arts, and Culture, Abubakar Robert Ewa is dead.

Ewa is said to have passed on Wednesday evening at the Arubah Specialist Hospital in Calabar., but the cause of his death is yet to be known,. Thought, sources said Ewa has been attending medical checks at the hospital regularly for undisclosed ailment.

City Post gathered that Ewa attended the state Executive Council meeting which was presided by Governor Bassey Otu.

Ewa according to City post findings died at the age of 61 and has been visiting the hospital where he passed on for an undisclosed ailment

As at the time of filing this report, members of the Cross River State Executive Council and other aides of Governor Bassey Otu are gathered at the facility to mourn with his family.

His last public activity was a visit to the Arts and Crafts village of the Cultural Center in Calabar to inform traders of a pending demolition exercise for reconstruction of the facility.

Ewa served as Secretary and later, Chairman of the Boki Local Government Council, served as Special Adviser Community Relations and Secretary of the Anti Deforestation Task Force.