Defection Has Torn Essien Udim Apart – Council Boss Cries Out … As Mkpatak Community Holds 2019 Day Celebration

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By UbongAbasi Ise

The council Chairman of Essien Udim local government area, Elder Raphael Isobara, says the gale of defection that erupted during the buildup to the 2019 general elections has completely destabilized the unity of the area.
While interacting with newsmen yesterday during Mkpatak 2019 Day Celebration in Essien Udim local government area, Elder Isobara said prevailing situation in the local government especially the rerun elections coming up on January 25, 2020 are the products of defections that took place prior to the general elections, stressing that Essien Udim would be the only local government area in the state that would pass through the rigours of elections once more.
 The council boss said Essien Udim, as one of the three largest local government in Akwa Ibom State, possesses some peculiar characteristics, pointing that the area has 148 villages, 105,555 registered voters,  159 polling units, 14 secondary schools, 56 primary schools, and 107 private schools scattered all over the nooks and crannies of the local government area.
Speaking on the achievements recorded at the grassroot level in the past few years, Elder Raphael Isobara said his administration has been able to grade and repair failing roads in Afaha Ikot Ebak, Urua Akpan , Urua Edet Obo, Nto Nsek and several other places in the area.
Elder Isobara noted that there used to be 15 year-old heaps of refuse at Obo Annang market and another heap of wastes at Urua Akpan that was not packed for over three years but his administration cleared them in matter of few weeks at the resumption of the tenure.
He said in spite of lean resources accrued to the local government, his government has been able to build parameter fence, guest house and pavements at the local government headquarters, while also embarking on the planting of a 500 stand coconut plantation that would soon be expanded.
The council chairman of Essien   Udim local government area also hinted that his administration has been able to buy cars for some executive officers for administrative purposes, and has also commenced the building of traditional rulers’ council.
In the area of human capacity development, he disclosed that the council had contacted the National Directorate of Employment, NDE, and they have already visited the local government for inspection and selection of participants for entrepreneurial scheme while some Essien Udim students in the tertiary institutions have been catalogued for scholarship.
Earlier, the Chairman of Mkpatak community, Apostle Nse Isobara, in his address, expressed delight for witnessing the second and final verification exercise by the National Universities Commission, NUC, Abuja on the 2nd of December, 2019 in pursuance of the approval of the proposed Topfaith University, Mkpatak, hoping the result will be highly favourable to pave way for the commencement of operations of the university.
Also speaking at the event, the President of Mkpatak Development Association and the proprietor of the Topfaith Schools, Dr. Emmanuel Abraham, tasked the villages making up the community on environmental sanitation, peace and security.
The former accountant general for the Akwa Ibom State government, Knight Udo Isobara tasked the youth of the community to desist from cultism while inviting them for a roundtable meeting in order to hold a discussion on how to stamp out the menace of cultism and violence in the community.
Meanwhile, the chairman of Ika local government council, Mr. Anthony Gabriel Udousung and that of Obot Akara local government council, Mr. Anietie Akpanetor, were at the occasion to celebrate Mkpatak 2019 day with their Essien Udim counterpart, Elder Raphael Isobara.

 ©The Sensor Newspaper

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