Nepotism Has Taken Over Nigeria – Akwa Ibom Elders

By Chuks Ekpeneru

The Akwa Ibom Leaders’ Vanguard have called on the National Assembly and other independent bodies to look into the unbudgeted emergency expenditures in the country.

At a press conference on Thursday at the Correspondents’ Chapel of the NUJ, Uyo, the Leaders expressed anger that resources generated mainly from hydrocarbon deposits in the Niger Delta region, have been dubiously channelled into the prospecting of oil in the Chad basin.

They expressed their total lack of faith in Nigeria, stressing that such an entity no longer exists.

Speaking through their leader, Sen Anietie Okon, they said in the face of obvious nepotism, corruption, marginalisation and security threat, there was nothing left to be identified with an entity once called Nigeria.

“So, as far as I am concerned, the Nigeria I was born into had ceased to exist. We are now groping around either for a rebirth or the end of whatever is nomenclatured as Nigeria.

 “This nepotistic infrastructure completely negates the oath of allegiance sworn by the president as sudden attractions of institutions including the universities of refineries, etc, find Katsina particularly, Daura an attractive location against the principles national interest above private considerations.

The Akwa Ibom leaders lamented that while the South slumbers, the NNPC has engaged in the Federal Government “special projects” to the tune of N43 billion from the N16 billion in December, wondering why the Federal Government project was being executed and paid by the NNPC from the revenue it should be remitting to the treasury.

They consequently demanded executive orderliness in the dispense of appointments, investment, infrastructure, promotion of genuine security to the common good of Nigeria, not just for a part of Nigeria in line with the Oath of Allegiance and federal character principles as enshrined in the constitution.

They also asked the NNPC to urgently explain the criteria for location and distribution of the so-called special projects as none is seen in Akwa Ibom.

“One wonders why the state has not been considered fit for the location of any NNPC subsidiaries.” they asked.

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