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I hope this not the state people go on fasting and. Prayer ward off fulani herdsmen

While am not supporting corruption in any form I want various accounts of First Ladies in Nigeria to be investigated. starting from that of Late Maryam Babangida.I will be glad to see how much each of amassed in terms of dollars and pounds before meaningful comments can be made This should cover banks at home and abroad.

Whoever thinks that South-South is a part of Biafra is a big fool

The man is a confirmed member of deeper life and he. has. Not done this before

Kai traditional institution has totally collapsed.

Oh Emir live for ever.They are Chief Imams who spread the message of peace in Islam to Benue,Taraba, Kaduna, and Enugu and they have won many souls for Mohammed with sophiscated weapons

Let Enugu people intensify their prayer and fasting so that the gun will not explode

I see high possibilty of crash.Pray for them

With this level of corruption ,how do we retrieve all the awards various organisations gave him?,Shame to nigerians that clapped for him while he was stealing. Shame to some Akwa Ibom pastors who changed thier sermons to uncommon transformation just to get money from this devil.Tradtional rulers should bury their heads in shame for helping Akpabio to destroy Akwa Ibom
Shame to PDP for allowing this idiot to destroy the State.May God punish INEC and judges for all the bribes they took to allow him to govern the state.Those who helped Akpabio to destroy AKs will not know peace.

DaniDani
You are the most uninformed person about Akwa Ibom matters

What is three billion compared to what Akpabio stole in Akwa Ibom?

The virus known as Akpabioism infected Akwa Ibom people that they cannot differentiate individual from party.It is pathetic that Akpabio has reduced Akpabio people to dunces to the extent that some can just shout Uncommon Transformation with hunger.

But Edo women are not known for shoplifting but prostitu--------please complete for me because if ask me na who i go ask

Na wa for this country oooo.Today Saraki is a yoruba man ,tomorrow he will be Hausa or Fulani man.Politics is bad.

The issue is that Akpabio uncommonly transformed his dick and this explains why he could easily impregnate the small girl

Sad to note that some Akwaibomites are celebrating electoral fraud of Akpabio

From American wonder to Akpabio wonder .The uncommon transformation of Akpabio brought uncommon blindness to our people .God help and deliver our people from hunger that has reduced them to the level of an idiot .

To an uninformed akwaibomites and others read








AKWA IBOM’S VERSION OF THANKS TO AKPABIO





Joe,

Thanks for this beautiful write up. What I enjoyed most in the article is your application of civil language in making your points. Even though one could see how much you suppressed your anger, you were largely able to pass your message across without easy resort to hurling of insults at your perceived targets. I commend you.



I would however attempt an abridged response to your opinion as to the position of Akpabio in the history of Akwa Ibom state. In doing this, I am not unmindful of the current travails of Senator Godswill Akpabio and would not want to add to it; I would rather have waited till a more conducive time but since you have brought it up now, I feel this issue is weighty enough not to be ignored in its entirety.



One undeniable achievement of Godswill Akpabio is that he advertized Akwa Ibom state better than any previous governments did. No matter which perspective you look at things from, the fact you cannot take away from Godswill Akpabio is that he was and still is a very controversial figure in Nigerian politics. Controversies, as you already know, are necessary ingredients for advertisements. Thus authors would court critics who would create controversy around the subject of their book(s). The more criticisms the book gets, the more his trips to the banks. And this was what Akpabio did. He made sure you do not ignore him. He does whatever comes to his mind in order that you recognize his presence or his interest. Doing whatever came to his mind would not be bad but more often than not, he applied crude and unconventional methods.



Early in his administration, he recognized the importance of publicity and went all out to court the friendship of the media. I mean he spared no effort in making sure he had favourable side of news, reviews and publicity. Akpabio thus became a product; he advertized his “achievements” so much so that you would not forgive yourself if you did not visit Uyo, Akwa Ibom state- the land of “uncommon transformation”. And behold as you make your way into the city of Uyo, you would not fail to smile in appreciation of what Akpabio called his “uncommon transformation”. If you came by air, the well paved Oron road welcomes you. If you were visiting by road from Ikot Ekpene end, or from Abak road, as soon as you arrived at Goodluck Jonathan flyover or Ekom Iman junction, the state is a “beauty” to behold. He did a few strategic repackaging of Uyo metropolis. And that was all he needed.



But beyond and beneath this seeming transformed city lay debris of unimaginable proportion; not only is Uyo in ruins, Akwa Ibom state as a whole also is, specifically in economic terms. What is a city worth when the lives of its citizens and inhabitants are not worth a penny? What is beauty in the face of insecurity and deprivations that characterized Akpabio’s tenure?

Akpabio’s government had set out to open many leisure spots particularly within Uyo; how were the citizens to enjoy these places when there were no real economic activities going on in the state safe for a few construction jobs? These jobs were rightly given to multi-nationals with their lopsided personnel system. The trickling effects, as would be expected, were very minimal as the companies would have to repatriate its funds. Employment creation was only in the news media. Only the skewed civil service job recruitments were undertaken and to what effect when compared to those looking for jobs?



You were openly partisan and too patronizing in your assessment of Akpabio’s administration as you failed to mention even one thing he did not do right or where he made “genuine” mistakes. He sure wasn’t a super hero, was he? Of course, you admitted this much when you said: “These submissions may sound parochial but are the truth.” This statement sums it all up; your submissions really sound and look every inch parochial.



I heard you mention: “The flyovers, the Stadium, the Tropicana entertainment galleria, the pipe jacking technology, the hanging bridge and the colourful water fountains combined to turn the State into a delightful cynosure.”



And I ask: really? What was the original concept of Tropicana entertainment centre? What were the touted economic benefits? Have they been met? How much is the cost of the project to date? In what ways are Akwa Ibom people drawing benefit from this? Tropicana is a dead project; it serves no useful purpose other than offering idle youth the opportunity of going to kill boredom in the cinema house only to return home to face the grim reality of their lives – deprived and denied the right to self esteem. I hate to remind you that Tropicana was originally designed to hold 25 storeys five star hotel complex now reduced to 14 or 15? There was to be international conference centre, water fountains and lots more, and was initially billed to cost N33 billion. At the last count we hear it has grossed the N100 billion mark. Tell me, Joe, which of the structures in the original design are there in the galleria? The same thing goes for e-library which you probably forgot to mention. You also talked about pipe jacking technology; a project that was to eradicate flooding in Uyo. We were told that two minutes after heavy rainfall, the whole town would look like it never rained! Today, Uyo is submerged in flood anytime it rains. You dare not attempt to drive through Babangida avenue and its environs. Abak Road, Atiku Abubarkar and Ikot Ekpene roads are more like “periodical rivers” than streets/roads whenever there is heavy down pour. How can you take pride in a project that the state is believed to have wasted over N16 billion without achieving its set objectives? And you call for us to thank and celebrate the initiator and executioner of this project here? How laughable. As for hanging bridge and water fountains, I can only say wao! These were indeed uncommon projects. By the way, did you not notice that all state government contracts were shrouded in secrecy such that the costs and sometimes the components of the project were hidden away?

Here you go again: “their status (Akwa Ibom people) from the fetchers of wood and drawers of water to boardroom players, managers, policy and decision makers.”

Can you mention the boardrooms and industries that we have become active players, managers and decision makers in as a result of Akpabio’s interventions? At the Federal level where he was a key voice, what appointments did Akwa Ibom people hold and what contracts or other political/economic benefits came their way considering our unwavering support for Jonathan’s administration? Perhaps you are dreaming of Akwa Ibom that is to come; not that we already know of.

Joe, it would serve us useful insight if you were to tell us how much Attah’s administration received in comparison to Akpabio’s. But I leave out the comparison because the basis would be flawed on account of deliverables in relation to capacity. Akpabio’s administration received well over 3 trillion Naira in its eight years as against Attah’s N542 billion. To whom that much is given, it is not out of place to also expect much. Have you forgotten Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala pointedly accused Akpabio of not using one tenth of its share of Federally derivable revenue in the state? Was the governor able to counter that allegation? To convince me and others in this train of thought, march the revenue against the projects (expenditures) and let’s see what you come up with. I don’t want to bore the readers with facts that Akpabio’s achievements were over-bloated.

I cannot end this piece without mentioning the fact that during Akpabio’s tenure, hundreds of Akwa Ibom people were kidnapped, tortured and most of them outrightly murdered in gruesome circumstances. A governor under whose watch his citizens were murdered in droves during his reign of terror cannot go for one to be praised. The state was handed over to thugs, cultists and agents of destruction. And they visited the people with enough dosage of their pills. Perhaps the families of the victims of murder, kidnap and physical brutality should be the ones to say it loud and clear: ‘Akpabio, thank you very much’.

Something else. I ask you sir, how much is Akwa Ibom debt profile left by Akpabio in spite of the state’s stupendous revenue within the last eight years? Should we also clap for that as a part of his successful duty tour?

As if these were not enough, we are still today plagued by his inappropriate actions which when brought to the fore have continued to diminish not just his person and achievements but the entire Akwa Ibom state and its people. We are now known for uncommon scandals upon scandals of no mean proportion.

I tell you what: Akpabio had the rare opportunity of writing his name in gold; even the gods favoured him. He had everything going for him; the human capital and the resources to have excelled and the goodwill of the citizens. He frittered all away. He fluffed the chance to become great on the altar of hate, vengeance and vain glory pursuits. Soon after he got to the position of governor, he appeared to have kicked God away from his life; trusting rather in his self created fame. The result was his alienating the masses who were ready to lay their lives for him. How did he pay them in return?

Even the construction and rehabilitation of roads that he vigourously pursued were priced way too high, above what could pass for world record in cost per kilometer.

At the end of his tour of duty, uncompleted projects adorn the state. Some of them are:

· Tropicana Entertainemnt galleria – uncompleted

· E-library – uncompleted

· Akwa Ibom airport – uncompleted

· 20th anniversary hospital - uncompleted

· Four point hotel, Ikot Ekpene – uncompleted

· Pipe jack up drainage system – set up committee to study why project failed

· Pipe jack up drainage system, phase 2 – uncompleted or abandoned

· Ibaka deep seaport – abandoned

· Petrochemical plant – abandoned

· Akwa Ibom refinery – abandoned

· 31 industries to be spread all over the LGAs in the state – vanished even after alleged N20 billion budgetary allocations.

Need I mention more?

Joe, all the above mentioned uncompleted or abandoned projects as listed here are open to your verification. And you expect Akwa Ibom people to give a standing ovation to Akpabio?

Please spare us this praise singing or is it ‘Akpabiolatory’

From useless uncommon transformation to uncommon disgrace.This is a total disgrace for Akwa Ibomites at international level.
Nigeria is indeed a useless country for giving this man uncountable awards .I hope various organisations will also give him awards for this.
Kai this man destroyed Akwa Ibom but the unfortunate and uninformed people will always tell a story of him as the best governor in Nigeria without knowing this is the modern fraudstar the country has produced from South-South Region.
The question is ;Do we have hospital in this hotel building?.Rubbish

It is unfortunate that Nigerians talk from two sides of their mouth.On one hand corruption must be dealt with while on the other hand fraud associated with elections should be condoned.Let Wike and Dakuku come out and test their popularity in free and fair contest then we know who will win

By their postings thou shall know them , we have very many homo and lebo in nairaland.Chai God help us oooooo.

Don't be ignorant bro, hotels like this create lots of local jobs and adds to the aesthetics of the area it is situated, increase value of surrounding properties, etc. So it is a welcome development



You are at liberty to celebrate this "FRAUDSTAR" because you have never seen development before.By the time the debt profile of the state is made public ,then you will know you have been ' fooled'

richidinho:


Ibadan is a state capital
Ikot Ekpene is a LGA hqtrs

Akpabio spreads devt all over the state



You are the most uninformed person about Akwa Ibom State.
Could you tell us how your so -called development is spread?.

Chai my people perish for lack of knowledge.Most of the commentators are jobless and one wonders how they would raise money to even gain access to the hotel.Could the hotel be the promised one -industry per local government of the state?.

Pls they should arrest those in Akwa Ibom sharp sharp including Austin Okojie

This kind of notice is totally un-nigerian.If you write dont urinate here Nigerians will urinate there.But if you write "Urinate here" Nigerians will be scared of urinating there.Indonesia should change the notice at the airport to read thus----If you carry drugs your life will be spared" OR DRUGS ARE ALLOWED HERE.OR WE CELEBRATE DRUG TRAFFICKERS.Notices of this nature will help nigerians brain to work.

RE: UKANAFUN COTTAGE HOSPITAL CONTRACTFollowing so much media interest on the Ukanafun Cottage Hospital Contract, arising from Governor Godswill Akpabio and some social media correspondents, making some disparaging comments against Atuekong Don Etiebet, CON, on the contract, I have decided to clarify the issues concerned as follows, being the MD/CEO of Global Corp Ltd which got the contract. 1. My company, Global Corp Ltd successfully bided for the construction of the Cottage Hospital at Ukanafun, Akwa Ibom State and the Contract was awarded in August 2008 in the sum of N1, 120, 036, 491.42. 2. By even government’s account and records, the mobilization in the sum of N400, 973, 063.93 was paid on 23/12/2008 upon submission of Advance Payment Guaranty (APG) and Performance Bond from our bankers. The APG and the BOND were discharged after “above 50% execution” of the contract as stated by the Ministry though, by our estimation about 70% of the work was done in 3 months. Our performance received the Ministry’s commendation. 3. The 70% work done within 3 months was achieved through my enthusiasm as an indigene of Ukanafun to complete the hospital in record time within the 6 months as stipulated in the contract for the good of my people. So I went out to borrow more money from our bankers and others to do the job, hoping that I would be paid according to the contract terms within the 6 months period. 4. But when Governor Akpabio knew through his administration machinery of the contract that it was my company that got the contract, he personally orchestrated the delay in the payment of the next two IPCs of N163, 059, 010.23 and N53, 347, 266.71 respectively put in May and June 2009, through their consultant, Oliver Ebong of Olkem Nig Ltd, which the Ministry of Health officials caused me to pay them the sum of N100 Million before my further IPCs could be processed. The 1st IPC in N163, 059, 010.23 was then paid in November 2009 while the second one was still pending. 5. Because of the willful delay in the payment of the IPCs, my bankers refused to advance me more money to progress on the work and because of my mounting debt to the bank and suppliers further work on the project stalled for almost 2years until July 2011 when they paid the second IPC in N53, 347, 266.71. 6. Hoping that we had reached some amicability with the payment of the second IPC in July 2011, I borrowed again to continue the work and put in 2 more IPCs in N81, 153, 389.85 and N178, 481, 313.21. They paid only the first one of N81, 153, 389.85 in October 2011 but refused to pay the second one in N178, 481, 313.21 until July 2013 after a lot of haggling, begging and crying as I was by now thrown into heavy debts with my bankers and suppliers. 7. So it was only by July 2013, five years after the award of the contract, that the government paid a total of N877, 014, 051.95 but what came to our purse after the forced payment of N100, 000, 000 to the consultants was only N777, 014, 051.91 till date.
8. This is a contract that was to be completed within 6 months and we did our own best from the beginning to beat the deadline but the government’s unwillingness, for reasons only known to them, to process and pay the IPCs as and when due within the six months period dragged the contract completion till the 7th year, today. 9. During the Town Hall Meetings in 2014 when Governor Akpabio visited Ukanafun and the issue of the Hospital was raised, he asked how much work had been done and his Ministry official said over 84%. This is on tape recording of the Town Hall meeting. I am glad to say that the work done even at the Ministry’s estimate of 84%, although our estimate was at 90%, is more than the percentage of what we have been paid at 78% of the contract value. It was then that the Governor told the audience that the Hospital project would be completed in the “next two months” and asked to see me. I was told of this development and I made several efforts to see him thereafter but never succeeded. Mr Etekamba Umoren, his Chief of Staff knew about these attempts. 10. Before this time, I had put in a variation of about N300 million to complete the job because of rising cost of materials after 7 years which was never attended to but I was surprised to hear recently that the Governor had directed that our contract be terminated since March, 2015 and is being re-awarded to a designated contractor for about N600 million, something I had asked for only N300 million since last year to complete the project. What is the justification for this? 11. The records of what I have said above are there to substantiate them. I challenge them to contradict these figures. So, where did Atuekong Don Etiebet come in, in all this and where is the money the Governor keeps accusing Atuekong Don Etiebet of diverting on this contract. I would like to emphasize very strongly here that Atuekong Don Etiebet has nothing to do with this contract or has benefited from it in any way. On the contrary, I have borrowed money from him to put into this contract. 12. What is true is that through deliberate actions to frustrate me because of my refusal as a friend and confidant to join his gang of “Youths” in the State, the Governor has orchestrated his plan to render me bankrupt, instill grievous pain and destruction on my life and business as he does to others who do not agree with him. He is annoyed that I am still alive and well because of my closeness with Atuekong Don Etiebet. 13. Governor Godswill Akpabio has continually forgotten our humble beginning as friends, brothers and even as colleagues when he worked for Mr Emeka Onwuegbuzia, MD/CEO of Emis Telecoms and I also worked with Mr Onwuegbuzia because of our common mentor, Chief Don Obot Etiebet, a major shareholder in Emis Telecoms. The entire Emis Telecoms transmission infrastructure and operational office were located in ETIEBET PLACE. Barr. Godswill Akpabio benefited immensely in his only formal carrier job from Atuekong Don Etiebet. You can call Mr. Onwuegbuzia (0803-572-5113) to enquire. It is from Emis office my brother, Barr. Godswill Akpabio was invited by HE Obong Victor Attah to join his government in 2002 and later became governor.Maybe there are issues waiting at Emis Telecoms for him to address after his 8 years of immunity in Government House that he also turns his anger on me and my company, Global Corp Ltd.The Atuekong has no interest or shares in Global Corp Ltd and is not even a director of the company. He only gives my company some jobs to do.
For HE Governor Godswill Akpabio to attempt to malign this great man, an Icon of our time from Annangland because of a one billion naira cottage hospital project, an amount this great man of honour has spent developing most of us including Godswill Akpabio, to get to what he is today, is preposterous, shameful and disgraceful and should be condemned by all right thinking people. I wonder what his testimonial would say if the four men very qualified to write on HE Governor Godswill Akpabio - Mr Emeka Onwuegbuzia of Emis Telecoms, Atuekong Don Etiebet, HE Obong Victor Attah and Dr Imeh Sampson Umana were to put pen to paper.
God in His infinite wisdom has used these men for Godswill Akpabio to achieve what he is today but over his 8 years in office, there are no abuse, castigation, cursing, ridiculing and falsehood remaining that Governor Akpabio has not employed to destroy these great men in his life.Thank You Mr. Enobong Jimie IdiongManaging Director / CEOGlobal Corp Ltd0802 313 7323enobongjimie@icloud.com

I can't believe that some Akwaibomites in the this forum are uninformed about the activities of this disaster called Akpabio.They dont know that Akpabio is an expert in electoral fraud.The questions are
How did he win the primaries in 2006?
How did he win 2011 elections?
How did AKWA IBOM become a killing and kidnapping field before 2011 elections?.
How did he impose candidates for 2015 elections?
Who killed Albert Ukpanah and Hon Okon Uwah between last year and this year?
To those who think Akpabio can win an election any day in Akwa Ibom I pity them.And those who call him an uncommon tranformer .God will surely open their eyes.Let me assure them that if election is closely monitored in Akwa Ibom ,Akpabio can never win .Quite unfortunate that Akwa Ibom people are not ashamed of the conduct of the just concluded elections and they did not read the reports of EU, and other agencies.
Akpabio is an expert in "using his hands to change figures " as he confessed sometimes ago.His followers should continue to praise him and die in penury.This uncommon transformer has not told them the debt profile of the state and how he sourced money for the elections and their effects on the future of the state.

This is what you get when you have an ex-policeman as Oba or traditional ruler.He cannot do away with 20 naira mentality.He got from Fash and Ambo must drop his own to keep the place active.But what is happening?.I thought traditional rulers should be apolitical.

Girls no de shame again.Before before girl or woman who get baby without real marriage go de shame to talk for public but now dem no get shame even when the people call dem Baby Mama

If Oba has family issue to settle with Agbaje let him go ahead and do so .He should stop talking as if he is the founder of Lagos.Afterall he started xenophobic attack in Lagos before that of South Africa just to pave way for Ambode

Simple-The higher the price the lower the quantity that will be demanded -Ceteris paribus