Journalists and media houses avail the public information on events and at the same time its a vehicle through which the public communicate their needs, desires, admiration, protests and even criticism to government and people in position of authority. This is one of the reasons journalist profession are regarded as the 4th estate in the realm.

Ordinarily, it is expected that Cletus Ukpong of Premium Times follow seriously the ethics of the profession in Nigeria by writing and publishing things the way they are instead of using and abusing professional ethics through publication falsehood, fallacies and propaganda against Governor Udom Emmanuel and Akwa Ibom state government.

Cletus on July 1 had authored a malicious content titled; "AKWA IBOM SPENDS BILLIONS ON WHITE ELEPHANT PROJECTS, WHILE ITS EDUCATION SYSTEM ROTS AWAY" and published in Premium Times, and online blog that was hitherto respected for its investigated work.

The said publication was laced with falsehood and half truth, it paint the state government as what it isn't and concealed facts that should enlighten and inform his readers as expected of a journalist.

Is the education sector in Akwa Ibom state abandoned? Is it suffering? The response of over 95% apolitical Akwa Ibomites will be in the negative.

Since the divine administration of Udom Emmanuel came onboard it has taken a lot of measures to improve service delivery in the education sector. Schools have been renovated with state of the art facilities in all the communities in the state, blocks of new buildings of administrative and classrooms have been built, thousands of desks and chairs have been made available to all public schools in the state, in addition to these, teachers are motivated through strict adherence to their welfare by the state government and no Akwa Ibom teacher complain of being owed what is due them. In Akwa Ibom state education is free and had seen upsurge in enrolment including from non-indigenes.

Sadly, instead of Cletus Ukpong to inform his readers all these facts in his bid to demarket Akwa Ibom state, a state he claims to hail from, he chose an unpopular route to bring down the state.

If the author was a visionary he would have seen the long term benefits of projects like Ibom Tropicana Entertainment Centre, four point hotel etc to the state especially in the area of tourism even though they are capital intensive but yet, revenue generating just like we are witnessing in Dubai and other tourist cities.

Did the author realise that Akwa Ibom state is an homogenous Christian state and its citizens embraced the idea of a worship center in the city just as there is a Central Mosque in Kano (being a homogeneous Muslim state)? Beside, does Ukpong know the volume of God's blessings that come on those that honors Him with a place of worship for the brethren? A house of God?

It is sad that the once respected premium times has fallen in standard that its platform has now taken to publication of falsehood due to the unprofessionalism of people like Cletus Ukpong.


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Show me a state that PDP is always confident of due to the satisfaction of the people on the Governor and I will show you Akwa Ibom state.

Show me a state that doesn't have a single opposition but businessmen deceiving their various party because they know that there is nothing for them in the state and I will show you Akwa Ibom

Show me a state that has been commissioning projects and opening new ones and I will show you Akwa Ibom state.

Udom till 2023

tho I've not seen what that man wrote but since it is against Udom that means he's an enemy of Akwa Ibom

Pictures don't lie. Udom is working hard for Akwa Ibom people And we love him

ibibiofirstlady:
tho I've not seen what that man wrote but since it is against Udom that means he's an enemy of Akwa Ibom

Ukpong wrote baldrash

to many haters of good things in dis country

Akwa ibom has too much money
They could do more than this.

Mylove55:
Akwa ibom has too much money They could do more than this.

which too much money are you talking of

Mylove55:
Akwa ibom has too much money They could do more than this.

which too much money are you talking of

Pulic schools in AkwaIbom are amongst the best in the country in terms of infrastructure.

blackmantis:

Pulic schools in AkwaIbom are amongst the best in the country in terms of infrastructure.

God bless you my brother