IBIBIO COMUNNITY ( USA ), INC. 713 Chillum Road, # 101 Hyattsville , MD 20783 December 15, 2009
Excellency, Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua
President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Abuja, Nigeria
C/O Nigerian Embassy , Washington DC. , U.S.A.
Dear President Yar’Adua,
We the Ibibio ethnic group of Akwa Ibom State in Diaspora are thankful to you for the great job of governance and steering of the Executive functions of Nigeria .
We, the Ibibio ethnic group of Akwa Ibom State in the diaspora hereby bring the case of corruption and money laundering by the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Godswill Akpabio to you and request a national action to investigate and remove him from office to avoid embarrassing the country/Akwa Ibom state further and bringing more infamy to the country’s image.
Money laundering of $3.1 million across state boundary
We call your attention to the recent arrest of one of Mr. Godswill Akpabio’s couriers, Mrs. Emem Etuk, who was arrested by the Nigerian law enforcement authorities at Murtala Mohamed Airport , Lagos , with
$3.1 million dollars cash. On arrest and interrogation, she confessed that it was meant to be delivered
to Governor Akpabio in Abuja . We as citizens of the state are appalled at the flagrant disregard to
human sufferings in Akwa Ibom which this type of action has contributed. We are enraged that Mr.
Godswill Akpabio has brought shame, dishonor and disgrace to himself, the state and the office of the
Governor, which he swore to defend, the day he took the oath of office.
Safety
One of the primary functions of the office of the Governor of a state is to guarantee safety to its citizens. On the contrary, since taking office, there has been an innumerable count of kidnappings and
raping of children. Same miscreants demand millions of Niara ransom in cash without which the victim’s
throat is slit.In one instance, two brothers (the Ekpeyong’s brothers in Uyo, the state capital) were shot execution style, before other members of the family because one of the Ekpenyongs, who visited home from Italy resisted kidnapping. The bandits were apprehended and the trigger man hails from the same village as Mr. Akpabio. The murdered brothers left behind eleven young children and two widows. The people of Uyo deposited the caskets of the slain brothers in front of the Governor’s house and chanted “politically motivated murder”. In another instance, a former state representative under the former governor’s (Obong Victor Attah) administration was gunned down when he was selected to Chair the State branch of PDP. Attorneys in Akwa Ibom state carried out demonstration before the Governor’s office accusing the governor of instigating political killings in the state. For us Akwa Ibomites, going home to our state in
Nigeria is a risk. The citizens of the state in diaspora are targets of kidnappers. Foreigners (whites) with businesses in the state have abandoned their businesses for safety reasons.
This condition was ushered in from the first day Mr. Godswill Akpabio took office. Another very
pathetic situation is the much talked about murder of a widow with four young children. The widow used to
date the Governor, after his wife found out the situation, the Governor himself advised his wife to get
rid of her. She was gun down in cold blood.
The Governor’s tyranny and the litany of crime continues under his administration.
Money laundering to the USA
Mr. Godswill Akpabio has siphoned the Akwa Ibom state’s money and acquired properties in the United
States of America using the names of his family members. These properties are located in (i) Atlanta ,
Georgia (in Gwinette County, at 892 Nestling Dr , Lawrenceville , GA 30045 . Specifications of the
property include: 8 bedrooms, 3253 square feet, worth $529,900.00 USD, bought in 2007) (ii) Florida (iii)
Houston (iv) Michigan , etc. These properties are located in very exclusive and expensive subdivisions.
We are asking him to provide the Government of Nigeria with this information freely, otherwise, we will
publish the addresses of other properties in the U.S.A. and Nigeria . It is very unpatriotic, offensive
and indeed criminal, that while other citizens of the state are struggling to make ends meet, the
people’s monies is used to buy luxury properties in foreign countries under the names of Mr Akpabio’s
siblings. In the United States , money laundering is a felony, punishable by years in jail. Once again,
we are asking him to cooperate with us by disclosing all his assets to the people who elected him into
office and the Nigerian government.
Mr. President, to clear up all of these wrong doings, and to render truthful justice to the citizens of Akwa Ibom State, we most humbly make the following petitions to you:
(1) That you use all lawful means available to the Federal Republic of Nigeria, to investigate and
remove Governor Akpabio from office, for misappropriating public funds and laundering money to different
parts of the world. Nigeria has a precedent for past Nigerian state governors, and other public servants
who were caught laundering monies. We quote the cases of former state governors of Plateau, Delta, Abia,
Enugu , etc., in all cases their houses, bank accounts and aircrafts have been repossesed and returned to
their respective states.
(2) We demand from him a list of his ill-gotten assets hidden in Awa Ibom State, Abuja, several African
countries including South Africa, European and American countries (U.S.A. in particular).
(3) To recover the huge number of landed properties that Mr. Akpabio has acquired in Akwa Ibom State
through a massive money laundering scheme (the general public will be very helpful in this issue).
(4) To set a federal investigator to investigate all the politically motivated kidnappings and murders
in Akwa Ibom State .
(5) Mr. Akpabio has been rumored to be involved in buying private jets and two passenger aircrafts
within the short period that he has been in office. These allegations should be investigated and
prosecuted.
(6) We the concerned Ibibio people in the United States numbering about 500,000 people want justice.
We are planning to demonstrate early next year in major cities in USA , Canada , Britain , France , etc.,
to bring our case to the major consumers of our oil. Shortly afterwards, we will turn over the list of
his secret properties to the U.S. government for investigation and prosecution, unless something is done
at your end as we do not want to continue to put Nigeria in bad light.
(7). We the people respectfully ask you to demand Mr. Akpabio’s removal to avoid bringing more scandal
and bad image to Akwa Ibom State and Nigeria . Already, some of his counterparts have shamed us enough
when they were arrested and jailed in Europe , where most of their stolen properties were seized and
turned over to the people of their states.
Mr. President, we attach herewith 17 cases which Governor Akpabio has been asked to answer as these have
been submitted by Ibibio people who constitute 85% of the population of the Akwa Ibom State. We wish to
state that these people are afraid to confront Governor Akpabio for fear of being eliminated by his
thugs.
We humbly thank you Mr. President and expect an expedited action on the issues raised.
God bless you and the Federal Republic of NigeriaGod bless the hard working, honest and sincere people of Akwa Ibom State of NigeriaGod bless Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria
Signed;
Chief Mike Ukpong – President, Ibibio Community in USA Mkpisong Sam Udofia – Member
Dr. Bassey Effiok – MemberProf. Etim Ubong – MemberMrs. Ima Jackson - Member
CC: Hon. Senate President Hon. Senators from Akwa Ibom StateHon. Members of Akwaibom State in the National Assembly
Hon. Speaker, Akwa Ibom House of Assemblyhe Director EFCC, Abuja
Governors of the Federal Republic of Nigeriia Speakers of the Niger Delta States of Nigeria
All Paramount Rulers of Akwa Ibom State
US State DepartmentBlack CaucusFormer Secretary of State – Gen. Colin Powellransparency InternationalPresident Nelson MandelaBritish Prime Minister

Ibom_Forum] Ata Ikkideh's Fact Finding Group Arrives Uyo
Ata,
By this morning (Wednesday) your group members shall have woken up to the nice views and serenity of Le Meridian Hotel & Golf Course or another sorrounding in the state capital. You are all in the hands of a good chaperon, you'd find.
Making Public The Tour. I waited to see if really you are a man of your words or whether your words are only good when the ink is not dried. When words about your so called Fact Finding trip first hit the forums you responded to Asuquo Essien that "The committee also advised that, it will be civil and proper to invite the persons personally before making the tour public." That, you are yet to inform your readers but the "persons" arrived Uyo late Tuesday. How come you did not make the tour public as stated? I read somewhere from your "home-boy" Clement Ikpatt you owe no shareholder of the money wasted on all the expense paid round trip/ lodging/ accommodation the "littlest explanation for doing good" and you have hearkened to this moaning, not the people you gave your words. But it has always hit good minds to question, if people are doing "good" why are they so secretive and tongue-tied about what they do with the people's money and in the name of the people?
Objectives of the trip. (No. 1) "To afford participants a full and unbiased on the ground assessment of the infrastructural development taking place in Akwa Ibom State" is the first objective of the trip. "Unbiased?" Ata, you are a good friend of Gov. Godswill Akpabio for donkeys' years, you went to school with him and have often visited him, when not, you are often in close contact with him. There is no way you can be "unbiased" in fact no one believes you on this statement. I am a critic of the looting and spending of the state money by the governor like a drunken sailor; I will continue to assert that such wastefulness including money for your all expense, fact finding round trip that will add no value to the people of the state would have been used to revive at least one of the 21 aling industries in the state. Thompson Essien is equally a critic of the administration. For these reasons you, most other close associates of the governor, other supporters of his administration, Thompson Essien and I were no good fit for the trip (unless you think you can fool all the people which is impossible). We all bave our biases for or against the governor and we are all interested parties on how things are ordered in our state, good or bad. Any fact finding trip to properly conduct an unbiased assessment of the administration needs an uninterested third party, an auditor of sort with reputation and experience, not you, not me and the rest. I am not going to delve into any of the other four objectives of your planned and executed mission because of the stated reasons above.
Criteria for selection. #1 "Community leaders in the diaspora." Akwa Ibom State Association of Nigeria (USA), Inc. is our foremost organiztion. In its 2009 Christmas & End of Year Message it states "We are not yet persuaded and do not particularly care about guided tours and fact finding junkets." At each of the last two AKISAN convention representatives of the administration have traveled to both conventions with boxes of series of booklets, magazines and publications with renditions of projects completed and uncompleted for the citizens. I took home five different of such booklets in 2008 and at least two were brought to me this year. Besides, I believe agents of the administration have bombarded the forums with accomplishments of the administration and we have volunteered to sum up how much this administration has taken in for the last 30 months. What's new that you drummed up a trip for and conspired in the looting and spending of our money like a drunken sailor? Almost all of you on the trip are too close to the governor or critic of the governor (if any) to produce any useful assessment of the administration for the public. At best, you are there to confuse people that you represent the Diaspora to endorse the Gov. Akpabio for his second term ambition while still in the middle of his first term. It may not be you intention but before we know the administration is going to capitalize on it for another cheap popularity.
Eno Adams INN/Hayward, CA

These just cant be true.

Who is going to receive this petition now since our president is dead _______ooops sori, almost dead and we dont av an acting eh
Issues are piling up oooo by the day.