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This is amazing and magnificent...

Well done Udom Emmanuel, this will help provide jobs to teeming youths of Akwa Ibom state

Kabongo1:
Thanks for the list of projects but I will like to ask what the responsibility of a governor is.
Aside from building classroom blocks and road construction, what is he voted in to do? The ikot ekpene to uyo road isn't completed and I am sure a couple of other items on your list will have the same issue. Uncompleted but reported as achievements.
Can you point to the factories he has completed and that are operational. Can you also share his plan for the human development of the akwa Ibom youth. His predecessor didn't build one factory and it will be a relief if udom is not following in his footsteps.
On the whole , with the monies the state has earned , the akwa ibom indigene deserves more than a list of partially completed projects. They need to have their lives bettered, they need means of livelihood and a lot more. I await your feedback please.
I have not insulted anybody and I will wish we are civil in our exchanges. Thank you.

What about Electric metering Industry and syringe factory among many others?

The enemies of progress will turn blind eye to this wonderful project

TonyeBarcanista:
Who says Udom isn't working?

Only enemies of progress would

This is lovely and wonderful. Udom always in the news for the right reasons

Penaldo:
PDP Looting better pass this one wey APC put us o. Make Buhari take us back abeg to PDP abeg

point of correction mister man, APC is also looting.

Udom is the best governor. He is the real Mr Project!

CLETUS UKPONG’S UNFORTUNATE INDISCRETION

By John Akpaideh 

Premium Times debuted first as a colourless online publication with just din. But it was to morph into a respectable and people oriented publication building its reputation through ethical practice and the investigative caveat which defined it. All those are disappearing gradually with the sort of practice that one of its reporters, Mr. Cletus Ukpong has resorted to. Whether Ukpong is paid for the hatchet work that is currently his preoccupation remains a conjecture. But suffice it to say that he has taken that publication which was enjoying ascendancy and confidence of a class of discerning people and reading public to a cul-de-sac.

Apart from informing, analyzing issues for the understanding of the reading public is a forte that journalism has carved for itself as a niche. Outside school systems and perhaps churches, no other institution can boast of bringing insights and deep perspectives to help the appreciation of issues like journalism. When a journalist therefore conveys the impression that a report has been investigated, the believability quotient increases and the report becomes highly rated. Latching on one of its sacred tenets which upholds facts as sacrosanct, the public believe information emanating from the stable of journalism reverently just as they do to issues from the Pulpit. Sadly, many have abused and betrayed this public trust because of a practice style which weighs oddly on the side of a mercantilism and pecuniary consideration.  When these ills have prejudice, hate, greed, and cynicism as added elements, then the fine qualities which ought to elevate journalism are willfully sacrificed in the pursuit of interest that can hardly be called altruistic. 

This is the likely scenario in the case of Mr. Cletus Ukpong of Premium Times who recently published an article with an overly labored caption entitled: Investigation: Inside The Akwa Ibom Top Science College Where Students Are Raised In Squalor, “Like Animals”. Ukpong seems to have known that the use of the word “investigation” would easily hoodwink and deceive the unsuspecting public. He smuggled in the lexical item for that duplicitous purpose and went to town with the intent to mislead and raise false alarm. Ukpong’s skewed report has not hidden its determination to malign and impugn the Udom administration and reduce its esteem in the eyes of right thinking people. Unfortunately for him, the malicious and malevolent publication came on the heels of the commissioning of a surfeit of projects by the administration and reports of intervention by way of construction and renovation of 62 school blocks across the State including the same St. Mary’s Science College.

Ukpong’s prejudiced report did not only set out to toll alarm bells and cause panic among parents and guardians who have their children/wards in that prestigious 31 year old institution, it also unwittingly brought journalism into utter disrepute by representing it as a platform for the dissemination of falsehood. He started the jaundiced piece thus: “Almost everything – everything that makes a school a school – is in a state of decay at St. Mary’s Science College, Ediene Abak, in an oil rich Akwa Ibom.” Malicious and inciting. He proceeded to use hyperboles to describe what he claimed to be the condition of the school. Hear him: “Empty cans, dirty plates and papers littered everywhere inside the Cottages. The mattresses, as dirty and stinking as they are, have no bedcovers.  The pillows too were terribly dirty and nauseating”. To cast credence to his conjured story, Ukpong introduced spurious characters one of whom he conferred with a name as UbongAbasi Okon, according to him, an alumnus of the college. He claims that the alumnus was his tour guide to the school. Eye witnesses argue that his claim negates what is actually obtained in the school which they assert as a disciplined institution.

The submissions above are so specious that ordinary elementary questions would expose the many pitfalls that replete the report. St. Mary’s Science College was established as a Teacher’s Training College 65 years ago before its conversion to Science College in 1989. There is no controversy in the fact that buildings erected decades ago could wear looks that may not appear befitting for the contemporary time with some even in ruins but not in the overly exaggerated manner Ukpong wants the public to believe. Yes, some of the buildings are in desolate state of disuse but Ukpong willfully trivialized the renovation effort of government that he physically saw. He refused to provide explicit details on the on-going renovation works involving the Assembly Hall, Computer Lab, Physics Lab, the Library and 4 classroom blocks. Rather he misinformed the public that the students live in squalor like animals. That is preposterous and an egregious falsehood. It is obvious that Ukpong set out for a predetermined report.  Whether he visited the school at all is between him and his God but the truth is that the picture he painted does not represent the state of the school. How can Ukpong claim that his tour guide was an alumnus of the school, not a teacher or a student? Is an alumnus a member of the school community? Does attending a particular school in the past entitle one to know about a school more than a teacher or a student of the school? Is it moral to confer an alumnus with the authority to volunteer opinion about a school he had long left? The deduction here is simple to reach – Mr. Ukpong perhaps did not visit the school. He may have written his prejudiced piece from the comfort of a cozy hotel with a bottle of cognac by his side and all expenses paid for by the sponsor of the vile report whose motive is apparently selfish politics. But what shall it profit a man who subjects his profession to indignity for the convenience of the unrighteous. When we allow pecuniary consideration to overwhelm us and begin to dictate our professional operations, it would certainly lead to ruin that Ukpong is inviting upon himself and the profession that has so far served and made him. 

The position of many is that if Ukpong loved his home state, he would not have done that outlandish report and put his state in bad light before a global audience which internet covers, whereas deep inside him, he knows that the report is deficient and deficit of truth. The analogy of our politics which compare war and politics and uphold that all undercurrents that underline them are fair is grossly disagreeable and an anathema in the face of the realization of trailing consequences. Let us not always think that all is fair in politics even the risk of self-immolation.  

Governor Emmanuel’s love for education need not be re-orchestrated. His notable achievements in the area are obvious for all to see. The administration’s intervention and partnership with the Federal Government in the founding of Model College, Ikot-Ekong in Abak Local Government Area and Navy College, Ikot Ntuen in Oruk-Anam Local Government Area are testimonials that propaganda cannot drown and deceit cannot overcome or overtake.  His passion for education can therefore not allow him as a father of children to watch them learn under the kind of condition painted by Ukpong. The intervention efforts of the State Government must be appreciated in the face of paucity of funds and understanding that all schools cannot enjoy intervention at the same time. Ukpong should acknowledge and take cognizance of an essential complement of journalism which is the protection of national interest and collective good.   These are values he jettisoned in that concocted report.

I love this. This is worth celebrating

In the the area of roads and infrastructure: Over 1,700km of roads have been commissioned or at various stages of completion 35 bridges have been completed; and the State Secretariat Annex has been completed.

Other projects include the 21-Storey Office Complex which will house the International Oil Companies and change the skyline of Uyo metropolis; the ongoing construction of the 2nd Airport Runway and the upgrade of the Airport Main Runway to Category 2.






I love this

Governor Udom Emmanuel did all those @Op? Akwa Ibom is so blessed.

if we don't reform the civil service Nigeria will go nowhere. If the story of the protest is true the Governor should explain to the elderly women for them to understand.

Mr. Odih, in His article stays entirely fixated on the personality of Austin Okai, He fails to address the crux of the matters which constitute a basis for the activism of Austin Okai and therefore flatly fails to take into consideration that:

1. ‎In a democracy, perception and freedom of expression are inalienable rights of individuals.

2. Austin Okai and His manner of youth activism cannot be downplayed as a key reason why Mr. Yahaya Bello may have with great pain decided to get it right in some aspects of leadership.

3. Whereas Mr. Yahaya Bello may be considered as a high flyer by some individuals, for some others, mainly those who may have by virtue of having seen and benefited from dividends of democracy elsewhere, He may be an accidental governor who haven't the slightest of ideas about how to be an ideal governor.

4. ‎ Even recent developments in Kogi State; especially the remote causes of the change of leadership in the state assembly which won for Kogi State recognition as perhaps Nigeria's most politically unstable state is enough to discount whatever efforts Mr. Yahaya Bello has made towards improving His leadership acumen because in all honesty, He cannot divorce himself from complicity in the matter.

5. Dan Odih's suggestion that Kogi State has promptly cleared it's outstanding debt obligation to civil servants in Kogi State is a lie because Mr. Yahaya Bello and Mr. Edward Onoja have both on national TV owned up to owing workers "just 15 months" of salary as they put it.

6. Despite Dan Obih's struggle to manage ‎the already damaged public image of Mr. Yahaya Bello, it adds to confirm to Him that beyond reasonable doubts, Kogi State have had it both rough and bad in key areas of its economy not excluding healthcare (comatose hospitals), education (striking lecturers), human development (harsh working conditions), public institutions (undue interference in the work function of other arms of government).

7. Spending over N1B of state resources in acquiring a private mansion for the use of members of the 1st family of an economically not viable state as Kogi is the height of insensitivity and sheer hatred for mankind.

8. Going on to abuse the instruments of state by unleashing security agents on individuals whose only known offense is asking questions about how their common patrimony is managed by Mr. Yahaya Bello and His band of overlords is cruel, despicable and so low because arm twisting members of the opposition into silence is an old political trick which has lost effectiveness.

9. Rather than resort to paranoia, typical of a Lamb Mr. Yahaya Bello should stop feeling threatened, intimidated and frightened at each request for accountability and transparency because as a matter of fact, His self help strategies will only postpone the doomsday because for every question touching on graft; not excluding the Paris Club Refund He refuses to answer before only Kogi people today, He'd answer before the entire world after He exits government in less than 24 months time.

10. Austin Okai is a proud leader of the most potent and vocal opposition structure in Kogi State and North Central‎ Nigeria and the PDP National Youth Frontier (the second largest youth driven structure of the PDP) who has no baggage of inconsistency, fraud, betrayal, lies, ineptitude, impunity and retrogression tied to Him unlike Mr. Yahaya Bello, who is fast becoming a workman who more often than not is seen quarreling with His work tools - suggesting to Nigerians that Kogi State is a kingdom without a King.

It is for the records that it is considered worthy of clear mention that Austin Okai has not a single personal interest in a weak and uninspiring leader as Mr. Yahaya Bello ‎but has a burning desire to see a Kogi State where a government exists which genuinely desires to develop critical facets of the real sector.

‎It is on this basis that Austin Okai will not relent in His social advocacy bearing in mind the rule of natural justice which suggests that "to whom much is given much is expected."


Ezeani, Chukwunonso Elvis.
Special Adviser, Planning & Special Duties.
Office of the National Coordinator.
PDP National Youth Frontier.

StarPlayer:
Bros go charge your phone na, abi una no get light?

I no de house

Benita27:
Can't afford to hurt another woman over tarty billion.

you are good bad girl

Benita27:
Na old man. I don't do sugardaddy.

what if him get tarty billion for akant?

Benita27:
Slaypapa!. Carry on, nothing does you.

You de trip?

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DONGOYARO1:
Lol. Dem dey share money for APDA?

Ask Tonyebarcanista lol

IHEJIRIKAisBOKO:
Dont be suprised if he contest for political position under the platform of APC. As much as some of us really want them to have their own country, we already know that their call for biafra was not really geniune. Biafra is truely a fraud

Trust me, He will LOSE WOEFULLY if he runs for elective office under ANY party even if it is a Councillorship poll.

Thing is, his message and agitation are anti-government and State, subjecting himself to the same Statewill only see him as a betrayer of his own cause. He ends up losing trust, support and confidence of people.

Do you know why Ojukwu couldn't win even a common Senatorial contest in 1979 shortly after the Civil war?

SUPERPACK:
He is bigger than that, currently i doubt anybody can challenge him in a governorship election, due to his massive followers.

Bro forget dat side. Even Ojukwu had "massive" followers but lost "Common Senatorial election in 1979".

He also lost all elections in Igboland in 2003 and 2007 (even coming behind Uzor Kalu).

DONGOYARO1:
Kanu's biafra agitation has always been political. It is only the brainwashed ipob that have been deceived.

Abeg I no know whether to laugh or cry after reading his recent interview..

Meanwhile, i am working on mobilising youths for APDA, join us bro....