Priscilla Akpanettot
Against widely held insinuations that the Akwa Ibom State Government is playing dumb about the missing Prospective Corps Members who left the State for the Sokoto State Orientation Camp, the Commissioner for Information, Comrade Ini Ememobong has stated the reverse.
The Commissioner who spoke with members of the Conference of Online Publishers in Akwa Ibom State (COOPA) on Wednesday, September 14, 2023 stressed that there was no way a government would not be responsive to the plight of her citizens; moreso, those who were apprehended on their quest for a lawful cause.
He however explained that such information is best kept secret for the sake of security.
Ememobong who was being hosted by the foremost online community in the state was speaking on the state of the State and Nation, following the fuel subsidy removal.
He submitted that the State Government was on it's part putting modalities in place to help cushion the effect of the economic inconvenience.
"what the Governor is doing is to ensure that he strategically positions himself so that, if there are negative aspects of the economic programmes of the Federal Government, he can cushion the effects on Akwa Ibom".
"What the Governor seeks to do is keep very close relationship with the government at the centre, irrespective of political party difference, to ensure that if good must come out of that government, Akwa Ibom must benefit and if an unintended wrong happens by what the Federal Government does, that he can cushion the effects here in Akwa Ibom', he said.
"Pastor Umo Eno is not just sharing palliatives but also ensuring that even at the village level, not one man sitting to share. He says the palliative is not political because multidimensional poverty knows no political party. So it's an idea of making things get to the village and creating a forum for even the Village Head to know that he's accountable to the people".
"The Village Heads know that their Certificate of Recognition is at stake. Any village where we record that a Village head on his own or in connivance with people, had allowed the palliatives not to get to the poorest of the poor", he said.
Speaking about the ARISE Agenda, the State Information Boss dismissed claims that the Agenda was interpreted from vernacular.
"For us, ARISE is not a word. It is an acronym which stands for Agricultural Revolution, Rural Development, Infrastructural Development, Security and Education Management. The economic blueprint of Pastor Umo Eno is guided by the ARISE Agenda."
"The ARISE Agenda has five cardinal points and 18 sub-units under these cardinal points which the current administration lays its foundation. What Pastor Umo Eno has done is to transit the ARISE Agenda from being his document, to being a political party's document and now, to becoming a state document and the compass with which the ship of his administration would be navigating through the seas of development".
"Governor Umo Eno wants to undertake the ruralisation of governance and he is not hiding his passion. He doesn't hate urbanisation, but he says there is an inequitable distribution of infrastructure between the urban and the rural areas. So, development will be rural community-centric. It is now time to connect the rural areas to the urban areas", he noted.
In the build up to the State's 36 Anniversary, the Commissioner congratulated Akwa Ibom on having towered higher than her contemporaries very quickly and competing with advanced State economies such as Lagos.
He wished the State more giant strides in the days to come and informed that the activity schedule for the Anniversary would be out by next week.
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