UbongAbasi Ise

By UbongAbasi Ise When Akwa Ibom State Governor, Mr. Udom Emmanuel, inaugurated a Post-Covid 19 Economic Reconstruction Committee headed by a renowned economic scholar, Prof. Akpan Hogan Ekpo, there was rising concerns in some quarters that such laudable economic remedial move might end up being jeopardized by the regurgitations of old microeconomic ideas that are far removed from the current realities of the post-Covid economic epoch. Such fears were stemmed from the fact that academicians and the economic glitterati of this world constituting the committee might turn the platform to a literal theatre where grammar and more grammar are competed, which at the end, leaves the precarious economic situation irrecoverable. Common wisdom was that the committee could have been constituted with market men/women, the product distributors, transporters, fishermen, agriculturists, manufacturers, local-based financial institutions and well-known business gurus that know where the shoe pi...

Infringements on human rights occur daily. Most of such occurrences pass largely unnoticed and unreported by the mainstream media, and over 85% rarely get the attention of law enforcement agencies. Some culprits are so powerful that, they dictate the pace of investigations of the crime they are involved with; violating the twin pillars of justice. The victims are so imperiled that, they are blamed for being victims. The narration must change as well as the orientation. Governmental and non-governmental agencies and organization seem overwhelmed by the plurality of the various dimensions of the brewing challenge. From the home front, through private sector space to involvement of law enforcement agents and agencies, infringements of human rights by state and non-state actors continue. The structures of the society, and the way law enforcement structures to specific functions, appear to encourage such human rights infringements. Civic education; good governance education and pra...