Kai Nigerians and weird words combination. What does the term [i] Digital governor [/i]means? Are you saying he is not real and made of numbers and computer codes like in the movie The Matrix?

Thats just the best thing in Governance

That makes no sense.

Seriously, it makes no sense.

visit www.digitalgodswill.com for more information

What was the point of this thread?

I doubt threadstarter knows what he is doing/posting.

Dear NLanders
I hope you will understand after reading this article below


Godswill Obot Akpabio: MAN OF THE YEAR 2009 - National Daily
31 Dec 2009

THE difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is just that extra. That simple looking extra can go a long way in any endeavour either for the good or the worse. In every case where there has been an acclaimed paradigm shift in civilization, one man has always stood in the gap. For all of Adolf Hitler’s ruthless ingenuity, it took the strength of character of a Winston Churchill. It took a Mahatma Gandhi to showcase the enormous power of change through non-violence, and a Martin Luther King Jnr. to put that idea to test and a Barack Obama to actualize it. It took a Nelson Mandela to show that the power of forgiveness can re-write the history of an entire nation, a continent and a race. And in Nigeria, Chief Godswill Obot Apkabio has taken the step not only to stand out from the repertoire of political crowd that has been the lot of this country since independence, he has taken the decision to be outstanding in every sense of the word.


There is no other time that the appellation the “Land of Promise” rightly captures what is taking place in Akwa Ibom State than now. Never before has that State nor any other neighbouring state for that matter been turned first upside-down and then right side-up. To say that things are looking up in Akwa Ibom State may be stating the obvious but side by side other states, what is currently taking place in Akwa Ibom State is a development agenda of tsunamic proportion.


And it is all because of one man, a man not only with a mission but a man on a mission, a mission of unmistakable importance, to bring real promise to the land of promise. And it takes a promise keeper to achieve so. Godswill Akpabio’s administration could with all sense of modesty be described as the most eventful to happen to the State in its 22 years history. During his first year in office, he commissioned more than 250 projects, that got the attention of our Board of Editors, but then we felt it was the usual flash in the pan that has become the trade mark of elected office holders in Nigeria who always try to act the new broom in their first few months in office. But when we got proof that Governor Akpabio has in his second year already commissioned well over 557 projects and still counting, we saw an extra ordinary Nigerian politician, who does what he says and says what he will do. Our interest in him was further heightened when it was brought to our notice with proof that more than 480 villages have been connected to the national grid and with the completion of the Independent Power Plant at Ikot Abasi, the government has entered into a 20 year contract with the Nigeria Gas Company for uninterrupted supply of gas to power the plant as a proof that its development policies are holistic. He has over 168 urban road networks under construction.


While his colleagues were busy avoiding federal roads in their states, Governor Akpabio has already spent about N81 billion to reconstruct and rehabilitate those in Akwa Ibom State, we knew something was cooking in the land of legendary culinary.


Not done, apart from infrastructural development, Governor Akpabio’s agenda for change provided for equitable distribution in the social sectors especially education and health. His free and compulsory education program from primary to secondary school levels is worthy of mention here. His government abolished all form of fees by paying subvention of N300 per student per term in secondary schools and N100 per pupil per term in primary schools. This amounts to over N17 billion annually. This has been revolutionary in that those who engage in child labour and abuses associated with making money off minors are out of work because there has been a record school registration process in the state. Moreso, teenage boys who would ordinary have been recruited by militants now have a better alternative, one that guarantees a future. Today, the University of Uyo has recovered 28 academic courses which has been accredited by the National Universities Commission (NUC), he has built hundreds of primary healthcare units across the state and also a Dialysis Treatment Centre with 17 dialysis machines at University of Uyo, paediatric ward will soon be completed at the same institution. He has seen to it that the Akwa Ibom State University takes off with highly specialized courses aimed at improving the skill set of young Nigerians. A modern digital library and four new general hospitals are in different stages of construction.


To cap it all, an international fully equipped airport is ready and running with Arik Airline flights frequenting the airport. Going beyond the resolve to make Akwa-Ibom a tourist and investors’ destination, the man, known commonly as “the Digital Governor”, has completed the Ibom Hotel and Golf Resort, with full capacity of 170 rooms. The Akpabio-led administration has initiated the construction of a N33billion Ibom Tropicana Entertainment Centre, a 16-storey five-star hotel, with 250 bedrooms; a galleria, with six cinema viewing centres; a 10,000-sitting capacity dome, in addition to a Theme/water park. It is expected that the project will effect drastic and positive changes in the economic and infrastructural landscape of the State.


In these unusual times when elected office holders build castles in the sky, it is one thing to have a great development agenda; it is another to ensure its completion. Not only on the pages of newspapers, but that they are verifiable and are serving the purpose they are meant to serve, this is what cuts out Governor Akpabio from the crowd. Akpabio’s well thought out development intervention in Akwa Ibom State is not only widely acclaimed but from every indication and from the assessments of our team of development consultants, will take the state to its destination, and that is why, we at National Daily without fear of sticking out our neck, name him Man of the Year 2009.

OMO IBO:

I doubt threadstarter knows what he is doing/posting.

what exactly are we talking about here?

[size=30pt]Akpabio: Garlands for ‘digital governor’[/size] culled from http://thenationonlineng.net/web2/articles/26085/1/Akpabio-Garlands-for-digital-governor/Page1.html

When the good people of Akwa Ibom State elected Chief Godswill Obot Akpabio as their governor, two and a half years ago, they took the tide at the flood and this has led to very good fortune for the entire state.

Godswill has become a metaphor for missionary passion, administrative excellence and people-centred leadership. Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, seems to agree and will thus crown Akpabio’s inspiring achievement with an honorary Doctor of Public Administration and Strategy degree today.

Born on December 9, 1962 to Chief Obot Akpabio and Madam Lucy Obot Akpabio (nee Inyang Eto) of Ukana Ikot Ntuen in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Awa Ibom State, Godswill lost his father early in life and was raised by his mother, who painstakingly inculcated in him the values of hardwork, discipline and honesty.

Primary education at Methodist Primary School, Ukana and secondary education at the prestigious Federal Government College (FGC), Port Harcourt, Rivers State, earned him the West African School Certificate /General Certificate of Education at Ordinary and Advanced levels. He proceeded to the University of Calabar, where he obtained a Bachelor of Law (LL.B) degree. After a year at the Nigerian Law School , he was called to the Nigerian Bar."

Destiny prepared His Excellency, Chief Godswill Akpabio, for leadership from early childhood. At FGC, Port Harcourt, a microcosm of the Nigerian society with students from all over Nigeria, he was appointed the General Senior Prefect. "At the University of Calabar, a federal university with true federal character in its students’ population, his charisma endeared him to the students and he was elected the Speaker of the Students’ Parliament," said Aniekan Umanah, a commissioner in his cabinet.

Akpabio worked briefly as a teacher, and was an associate partner with Paul Usoro and Co., Lagos, a leading Law firm in the country. His experience as a teacher exposed him to the educational crises in our society and his legal practice gave him insight into the needs of justice administration in Nigeria.

In 2002, Akpabio served as the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of EMIS Telecoms Limited, a leading privately-owned fixed wireless company in Lagos. He helped in developing the current crop of management in the telecom industry. He was elected the National Publicity Secretary of the Association of Telecom Companies in Nigeria (ATCOM), while he was still the Company Secretary of EMIS Telecoms.

Also in 2002, he was appointed the Commissioner for Petroleum and Natural Resources in Akwa Ibom State. He left his stamp of efficiency in this ministry as an astute administrator and was subsequently re-deployed to the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, and then to the Ministry of Lands and Housing, Uyo. In the Ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, he supervised the 31 local government councils and traditional institutions across Akwa Ibom State.

His invaluable conflict management skills came to the fore and by always upholding the truth in all he did, he earned the respect of local government administrators and traditional rulers. As a commissioner, Akpabio related with people on the basis of their character and not where they came from.

Completely detribalised, Akpabio is imbued with a passion for excellence and driven by a sense of mission and purpose. All these attributes, coupled with his charisma put him in a vantage position and led to his landslide victory in the April 14, 2007 governorship election.

The Italians have a proverb which states that: "The right man comes at the right season." Akwa Ibom is endowed with tremendous natural and human resources.

The right man was sought to fulfill the promises which define the state as: "The Land of Promise " and to give a sense of fulfillment to the people. Chief Akpabio was destined and came at the right season. Within two and a half years of the most eventful administration in the state’s history, the entire state has become one big construction site.

In his first year in office, he commissioned more than 250 projects, and is currently commissioning more than 557 projects. More than 480 villages have benefited from electrification projects and have been linked to the national grid. More than 140 rural communities now have mini water works. About 400 brand new taxis and 40 brand new ‘City Bus Scheme’ buses enable citizens to travel in comfort, safety and style. The hallmark of the new, improved Akwa Ibom.

One of the most revolutionary steps of this youthful governor is his intervention and development of federal infrastructure. So far, his administration has spent about N81 billion on the tarring/rehabilitation of over 200 km of Federal Roads, including three roads in the University of Uyo, a federal institution and the premises of the Nigerian Television Authority, Uyo.

Through his administration’s financial assistance, University of Uyo’s 28 academic courses have been accredited by the National Universities Commission. His government has built a Dialysis Treatment Centre at University of Uyo Teaching Hospital (a federal institution) and equipped it with 17 dialysis machines and is building a paediatric ward at the same hospital.

Further more, Academic activities commenced in the Akwa Ibom State University in September 2009. The university will offer courses designed to meet the needs of a developing country like Nigeria, including courses in Ocean Science and Technology, not offered in any other Nigerian university.

Perhaps, the most widely-acclaimed and celebrated policy of this lawyer and gentleman is his free, compulsory, qualitative education programme from primary to senior secondary school levels.

The government has abolished all kinds of fees and is paying subventions to secondary school principals at the rate of N300 a student per term and to primary school headmasters at N100 a pupil per term. This costs the government N7 billion annually, but Governor Akpabio believes that no price is too high to pay for educating the next generation. His determination to fight militancy with education is thus instructive.

In developing the road network, 168 urban roads are under construction across the state. An international airport with maintenance facilities will commence operations on November 26, 2009. A one-stop hospitality complex, the Tropicana Entertainment Centre, with a mini-Disneyland, galleria, shopping mall, international convention centre, a 16-storey five-star hotel complex with 250 rooms and a cinema hall is being constructed in Uyo.

The Akpabio administration is also building a digitalized modern library and four new general hospitals. The Independent Power Plant (IPP) at Ikot Abasi (a project initiated by the past administration) has been completed, and a 20-year-contract has been signed with the Nigerian Gas Company to supply gas for uninterrupted electric power. No sector of the economy has escaped this government’s patriotic attention.

Chief Akpabio has countless feathers to his cap. He is the recipient of over 30 chieftaincy titles from all over Nigeria . These include the Iberedem Ibibio, Nta Nta Offiong Annang, Atta of Eket and the Unwana Oron, to mention a few.

Like a city set on a hill, Akpabio’s ingenuity and patriotism have received acclaim from far and near. He holds the highest national honour of Niger Republic, the "Gold Humanitarian Services Award," conferred on him by the Niger Republic ’s Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency Alhaji Moussa Ibrahim. The ambassador also acknowledged the ’Digital Governor’s giant strides in development, at the Forum of Ambassadors in Nigeria.

Governor Akpabio has been honoured as the "2008 Most Outstanding Governor in Nigeria (South South)." The organisers said the award was in appreciation of his developmental strides and described his free education programme as unprecedented in the region. His Excellency also bagged the "Nehemiah Award" of the African Church of Nigeria. The church described the massive infrastructural development of Akwa Ibom State as "unequalled in the country." He was earlier honoured as the "Youth Ambassador of Nigeria" by the National Youth Council of Nigeria.

Other recent awards include that of "Governor of the Year, South South," by City People magazine; "Best Governor in Infrastructure 2009," Encomium magazine; "Best Governor South South," Encomium magazine and the "Excellency Recognition Award As Best Governor South South" from Global Excellence magazine. Prior to his emergence as governor, the Africa Independent Television/Raypower FM in the South South Region honoured him with the "Excellence in Governance Award" in 2005. These, however, are just a few of his many honours.

Today, we salute an adorable homeboy, lawyer, gentleman, statesman, astute administrator and inspiring leader, who has overcome tremendous challenges to lead and empower his people and has opened doors wide for them to enter the Land of Promise.

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Osita Ike is a public affairs analyst.

WTF ! Another senseless propaganda con artist
Can you please save us all the praise singing of your digital piece of crap

We all know that th fort coming 2011 elections are fast approaching and you and your PR bandwagon for Akpabio has chosen the broken record theme of " Digital Governor" all in a bid to decieve the helpless people of Akwa Ibom knowing well that your beloved Gov. has done nothing worth screaming about.

I still don't get how this make him a "digital governance/governor" [If the phrase have a meaning in the first place!]

'Osita Ike the public affair analys't must be on the pay list of this digital governor indeed.

Is sealworld a digital governance affair analyst?

Gov. Akpabio’s Anniversary Gift: Free, Compulsory Education http://www.aksgonline.com/articlePage.aspx?qrID=292


21 New Projects For Nsit Ubium http://akwaibomnews.com/content/21-new-projects-nsit-ubium

Govt. Commissions 13 Projects In Ikot Ekpene http://akwaibomnews.com/content/govt-commissions-13-projects-ikot-ekpene


17 Projects For Ibesikpo Asutan http://akwaibomnews.com/content/17-projects-ibesikpo-asutan

AK Partners Belgium On Sea Port Development http://akwaibomnews.com/content/ak-partners-belgium-sea-port-development


1ST PHASE TROPICANA PROJECT FOR COMMISSIONING THIS YEAR http://akwaibomnews.com/content/1st-phase-tropicana-project-commissioning-year


NSE rates Akpabio high on roads http://thenationonlineng.net/web2/articles/36869/1/NSE-rates-Akpabio-high-on-roads/Page1.html


many more to come,

May be I am stupid. How is this explaining "Digital Governor"?

ElRazur:

May be I am silly. How is this explaining "Digital Governor"?

May be, cos the pace at which he achieves success in governance got him the nickname Digital Governor. may be you come to Akwa Ibom and see things for yourself and know why he is called the Digital Governor. Even you can not help it but to also credit him as a modern age Governor who has delivered to his people. Sorry!!!!

chosen04:

'Osita Ike the public affair analys't must be on the pay list of this digital governor indeed.

Is sealworld a digital governance affair analyst?

am just a normal citizen

I was thinking the man was ruling from away and doing all his duty via the web. . . .Na wa for how we label stuff jare

@Sealworld,
I note Your bouquette ogf garlands.

We look foward to seeing the mother of them all - From EFCC and ICPC, in due course

sealworld:

am just a normal citizen

I thut one needs a degree in digital affair analysis to be able to analyize digital governance as evidenced by AKPABIO's garlands for digital governor?

people just name things, events or places as they deem fit. . . would someone pls explain why he's a "digital governor" and why others are not

chosen04:

I thut one needs a degree in digital affair analysis to be able to analyize digital governance as evidenced by AKPABIO's garlands for digital governor?

LMAO

violent:

people just name things, events or places as they deem fit. . . would someone pls explain why he's a "digital governor" and why others are not

i presume, he is implying his technology is superior to others in the manner he conducts governance, while others are outdated and analog.
in other words Akpabio vs other governors is like the difference btw MP3's vs Cassettes.

@sealworld
how can building roads and buying NAPEP vehicles make someone 'digital'? he is basically doing the same bloody things done by those before him. i guess that makes them all digital. abi?

violent:

people just name things, events or places as they deem fit. . . would someone pls explain why he's a "digital governor" and why others are not

i presume, he is implying his technology is superior to others in the manner he conducts governance, while others are outdated and analog.
in other words Akpabio vs other governors is like the difference btw MP3's vs Cassettes.  

Gov. Godswill Akpabio is a thief A chronic thief of public funds. In about 2 years plus as a Governor he has recieved about 700 Billion Naira from Federal Government Allocations, and yet nothing to show for it. Those pictures are your imaginations existing only on paper. I was in Uyo recently and I saw poverty every where. The only "digital" things seen in Akwa Ibom are bill boards carrying his 2nd term campaigns. He is into kidnapping to scare away those who want to remove him come 2011. Presently a serving commissioner is in prison on murder and kidnapping charges. Pls stop parading him here and tell him to repent.

See this https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria?topic=370680.msg5203485#msg5203485

As Long as Akpabio Remains the Governor, Kidnapping Will Reign in Akwa Ibom State.

About four (4) days ago, I received an unexpected telephone call from Hon. Commissioner Aniekan Umanah of Akwa Ibom State’s Ministry of Information. It was our first telephone conversation.

During the course of our conversation, this is the request I put across to Commissioner Umanah; “Honorable Commissioner, please tell Governor Akpabio that his decision to link Akpan Udoedehe to kidnapping in the State is a wrong tactics, which will backfire. Please tell the governor that no one believes him because nearly everyone in Akwa Ibom State knows who the kidnappers are and just because people don’t say anything should not be misconstrued as ignorance.” I will not divulge what the Hon. Commissioners’ response to my request was, other than to say it was more positive than I expected.

For a long time, many well-intentioned Akwa Ibom people have been shouting that the people who conceive, plan, and execute the crimes of kidnapping are members of Akpabio’s administration, but the governor, out of convenience, has chosen to ignore and instead focus on a target of his convenience.

Last week I wrote, and the article in Tell Magazine confirmed, that the kidnapping waves in Akwa Ibom State is as a result of cultism. I also pointed out that many of the influential cult leaders are currently working in various capacities in Akpabio’s administration. I offered suggestions on what the administration needs to do in order to curtail the waves of kidnapping in the state.

But I, and many Akwa Ibom people were stunned to read the report of the governor’s press conference, which credited him as saying that former Senator Akpan Udoedehe is the person to blame for kidnappings in the state. Immediately after the report of the press conference was mad public, telephone calls came in, including emails and text messages, from people all over the world, including folks in Akwa Ibom State, who told me that the governor goofed.

These people did not have to tell me so, I already knew that our governor is playing Russian roulette with the lives of Akwa Ibom people, which continue to be in constant danger of being snuffed away by kidnappers.

Governor Akpabio may continue to blame Akpan Udoedehe as much as he wants or point his fingers at anyone else as being the source of kidnapping in the state, the truth is, as long as the governor does not look inward, into his government, the crime of kidnapping will continue in the state for as long as he remains the governor of Akwa Ibom State, and that is an honest-to-God truth.

Thompson Essien
The Voice of the Poor Masses
Defender of the Oppressed
Social Critic
A native of Ibibio nation of Ubium Republic extraction, now living in the safe and beautiful city of Portland, Oregon, where no AKPF, ADUMA, ADV and Akwa Ibom State politicians can reach.

The Secrets of Governor Godswill Akpabio By Thompson Essien

For the past two and one-half years as a governor of Akwa Ibom State, Goodwill Akpabio is walking around and governing running the affairs of the State with loads of secrets on his shoulder. Here are a few examples.

1. As of this writing, there is an ongoing investigation by some indigenes of Aka Ibom State to the speculation that Governor Akpabio was arrested and detained for two weeks by the police in United Kingdom. No one knows exactly the nature of the crime for which Akpabio was arrested and detained, though some people speculate that it involved money laundering, while others said it was about drug trafficking. But informed sources confided that when the incident occurred, Barrister Assam Assam (SAN) had to travel to London to negotiate for the release of Akpabio from detention. Reports revealed that when Assam Assam arrived in London, he had a hard time negotiating with the police for the release of governor Akpabio. But through connections with some British politicians, an unnamed Member of the House of Lords was brought in to intervene before Akpabio could be released. It is said that the incident was reported to the highest authority in Nigerian.

I am told that since then Akpabio has not traveled to United Kingdom, which may explain why governor Akpabio has been sending his deputies to represent him on foreign commitments, as it happened just a few weeks ago, when former Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga, in company of Akpabio’s Commissioner for Information, Aniekan Umana, were sent to Phoenix Arizona. Other sources have confirmed that the Federal Government of Nigeria actually put a cap on governor Akpabio never to leave Nigeria to any foreign trip without clearance by the Nigerian government. I cannot independently confirm the story but reports indicate that since July 2009, or there about, governor Akpabio, who used to visit the United States at least once a month, has not been in America.

An investigation on the story is still ongoing, which will bring the actual period that governor Akpabio was detained in the United Kingdom. But Akwa Ibom people do remember that there was a period when the whereabouts of the governor was not known and at the time, his aides refused to disclose his whereabouts. As of this writing, it is said that only very few kitchen-cabinet members of the governor know about the incident, and discussion of it, if it ever occurs, happens behind closed doors and in hushed tones.

2. Last month, governor Akpabio commissioned a publicly funded hospital and named it after his late uncle. At the time, many Akwa Ibom people frowned over the idea of a sitting governor dedicating a public structure for a family member. Information has just been disclosed that the governor also has instituted a memorial fund for the uncle, in which he deposited the sum of N10 billion. The money is not from private donations but the people’s money, which the people of Akwa Ibom State entrusted Governor Akpabio as the keeper. As of this writing, some concerned indigenes of the State are drafting a petition for EFCC to look into the matter, regarding the source of the fund and to ask Akpabio to return the money to the people’s treasury.

3. It has been reported that the salary of state employees for the month of December is yet to be paid. The reason for the delay, according to those in the know, is because the money for the salary of workers cannot be released by the bank, due to the contract terms of the fixed deposit, which the administration entered with the PHB bank. The administration wants to wait till the end of December before the money is withdrawn. That way, a full interest would be accrued on the money. A few months ago, though it wasn't publicly known until recently, Akpabio’s administration withdrew the sum of $3.1 million of such interest from PHB bank. The money was given to a trusted official of the bank by the name of Emem Etuk, whose husband is a Personal Assistant of governor Akpabio on Petroleum Matters, to carry it to Abuja for undisclosed reasons. When Mrs. Etuk arrived at Murtala Mohamed Airport, she was caught with the money and detained by the police. Informed sources said governor Akpabio spent more than N50 million out of the money to have the case squashed by federal authorities and force PH bank, which initially denied the ownership of the money, to assume responsibility of ownership.

By

Thompson Essien

The Voice of the Masses

Defender of the Oppressed

mrsqueen:

The Secrets of Governor Godswill Akpabio By Thompson Essien

For the past two and one-half years as a governor of Akwa Ibom State, Goodwill Akpabio is walking around and governing running the affairs of the State with loads of secrets on his shoulder. Here are a few examples.

1. As of this writing, there is an ongoing investigation by some indigenes of Aka Ibom State to the speculation that Governor Akpabio was arrested and detained for two weeks by the police in United Kingdom. No one knows exactly the nature of the crime for which Akpabio was arrested and detained, though some people speculate that it involved money laundering, while others said it was about drug trafficking. But informed sources confided that when the incident occurred, Barrister Assam Assam (SAN) had to travel to London to negotiate for the release of Akpabio from detention. Reports revealed that when Assam Assam arrived in London, he had a hard time negotiating with the police for the release of governor Akpabio. But through connections with some British politicians, an unnamed Member of the House of Lords was brought in to intervene before Akpabio could be released. It is said that the incident was reported to the highest authority in Nigerian.

I am told that since then Akpabio has not traveled to United Kingdom, which may explain why governor Akpabio has been sending his deputies to represent him on foreign commitments, as it happened just a few weeks ago, when former Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga, in company of Akpabio’s Commissioner for Information, Aniekan Umana, were sent to Phoenix Arizona. Other sources have confirmed that the Federal Government of Nigeria actually put a cap on governor Akpabio never to leave Nigeria to any foreign trip without clearance by the Nigerian government. I cannot independently confirm the story but reports indicate that since July 2009, or there about, governor Akpabio, who used to visit the United States at least once a month, has not been in America.

An investigation on the story is still ongoing, which will bring the actual period that governor Akpabio was detained in the United Kingdom. But Akwa Ibom people do remember that there was a period when the whereabouts of the governor was not known and at the time, his aides refused to disclose his whereabouts. As of this writing, it is said that only very few kitchen-cabinet members of the governor know about the incident, and discussion of it, if it ever occurs, happens behind closed doors and in hushed tones.

2. Last month, governor Akpabio commissioned a publicly funded hospital and named it after his late uncle. At the time, many Akwa Ibom people frowned over the idea of a sitting governor dedicating a public structure for a family member. Information has just been disclosed that the governor also has instituted a memorial fund for the uncle, in which he deposited the sum of N10 billion. The money is not from private donations but the people’s money, which the people of Akwa Ibom State entrusted Governor Akpabio as the keeper. As of this writing, some concerned indigenes of the State are drafting a petition for EFCC to look into the matter, regarding the source of the fund and to ask Akpabio to return the money to the people’s treasury.

3. It has been reported that the salary of state employees for the month of December is yet to be paid. The reason for the delay, according to those in the know, is because the money for the salary of workers cannot be released by the bank, due to the contract terms of the fixed deposit, which the administration entered with the PHB bank. The administration wants to wait till the end of December before the money is withdrawn. That way, a full interest would be accrued on the money. A few months ago, though it wasn't publicly known until recently, Akpabio’s administration withdrew the sum of $3.1 million of such interest from PHB bank. The money was given to a trusted official of the bank by the name of Emem Etuk, whose husband is a Personal Assistant of governor Akpabio on Petroleum Matters, to carry it to Abuja for undisclosed reasons. When Mrs. Etuk arrived at Murtala Mohamed Airport, she was caught with the money and detained by the police. Informed sources said governor Akpabio spent more than N50 million out of the money to have the case squashed by federal authorities and force PH bank, which initially denied the ownership of the money, to assume responsibility of ownership.

By

Thompson Essien

The Voice of the Masses

Defender of the Oppressed

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Please don't be deceived by a known political opponent with an aim to Blackmail, its a common thing[/size]

no mind the op.dats how they give themselves useless names in akwa ibom.