Governor Bassey Otu of Cross River has said his government will no longer wait for the Federal Government to pay compensations to landowners whose ancestral structures were affected by the ongoing reconstruction of the Calabar-Uyo federal highway. The governor said he will effect payments so that work on the deplorable highway will no longer be delayed. In a statement after the 4th State Executive Council meeting, he said, “In our bid to ensure the construction work on the Calabar-Itu highway, particularly the Odukpani axis is not stalled, we have undertaken to pay compensation to landowners a…