I
have chosen to write to you through this medium because I have made
several attempts to see you in private to have this discuss, but all
attempt proves abortive, and also because I have heard rumours emanating
from different quarters about your gubernatorial ambition come 2015.
I
am articulated to refresh in your memories the history I came to hear
my grandfather say before his death, which I know will make you pause
and think before you act, not just acting from people’s perception and
advices. My grandfather told me of missionaries who came into our land
with bibles because that was all they had, and all our people had was
the land. These missionaries came to them and said they had to pray.
When they closed their eyes and prayed, by the time they finish praying,
and opened their eyes, they had the bible and the missionaries had
their land.
You
might be perplexed while I start my letter with the history you are
aware of, but the reason I am doing this is to depict the difference
between knowledge and wisdom. Sometimes our grandparents knew by
praying, but they were not wise for closing their eyes distinctively.
These history I am talking about is the same thing you and your
accomplices are trying to make it repeat itself again.
I
can remember vividly that before you were given an opportunity to serve
in the capacity as a senator, it was not because you were more
qualified to the likes of the emeritus Senator “Eme Ekaette” or Bishop
Samuel Akpan, but because the people thought that you will actualize the
dream of your late husband, that alone gave you an edge over them.
Prior to your emergence as a Senator, I was forced to read your profile
and I discovered that you had occupied other political offices ranging
from First Lady of the South Eastern State-1968, Honorable Minister of
State for Health -2005, Minister of Environment-2006-2007, First
Minister of Environment, housing and Urban Development 2007- May 2007,
yet the only thing you can ride home about for yourself and your family
is Villa marina hotel and Grafen Nig Ltd which you claim provides 300
employment opportunity to the people of Akwa Ibom State.
There
is a great need for you to understand that industrialization is the
pivot of every governance, and if you lack it when given a smaller
opportunity like the ones you have as stated above, then it is a
misdemeanor that will never be corrected when given a bigger opportunity
like the hilltop mansion.
My
Senator, I liken you to be the Missionary that lured my grandparents
into surrendering their land at the conviction of the words in the
bible. Why I say so is that you have turned around to make a caricature
of the manifesto you presented to the masses.
If
I fail to comment on issues affecting my person and my people, I will
be worst than a hypocrite. Eket senatorial district I come from is
suffering. It is suffering not because it’s not blessed with natural
resources, but it’s suffering because you and other representatives lack
the intellectual depth to paddle the affairs of this senatorial
district.
Everyone
will attest to the fact that, Eket senatorial district is rich with
natural resources; oil and gas to be precise, and contributes immensely
to the growth of both the state and the country’s economy, yet it is one
of the most impoverished oil producing communities, Because of the oil
politics played by our representative and the miss-governance.
My
Senator, you lack the wisdom to know that the youths need to be
employed, not just employed in organizations that is owned by you, but
organization that should be as a result of the funds you receive to
develop the senatorial district; you lack the knowledge to know that
education that is the bedrock of great society should be given high
priority to. Mayhem is caused by irate youths who have oil in their
community but cannot feel its derivatives. If you are performing these
good as a Senator “irony”, what will you have to offer if you are given a
chance to the Hilltop Mansion?
My
Senator, I will advise you to take a bow out of politics after the
expiration of your tenure because you are sleeping deeper than Senator
Eme Ekaette except you wake up now that is early. Ever since Senator
Udoma Udoma left Eket senatorial seat, the seat have remained vacant,
though it has been occupied by you to suit the whims of the Ogas at the
top , but you know less of yourself not to talk about governance.
The
lies that wrapped around your lips whenever you said; I will.....,
during your political campaign, told me of the calamity and
misappropriation of funds awaiting us as your electioneers.
The
plans of late Udoakaha Jacob Esuene, was a locality where youths who
are eligible will find a place to work and carter for themselves, a
terrain where education will be the bedrock that will project youths to
greatness. But now, the reverse is the scenario; Poverty have eaten into
the fabric of our senatorial district, yet we are represented; our
youths who have a lot to offer after graduation, are forced into crime
and prostitution because of joblessness, yet we produce and explore from
this zone. Should the Governor alone be blamed if a state fails? , I
think the fat sum accrued to the Senators for senatorial district
development, and house of assemblies (federal and state) should go a
long way in restructuring or revamping some forgotten projects.
I
want to advice you of the need to re-write the gigantic signpost I see
in grace bill road in Eket Local Government Area bearing “SENATOR HELEN
ESUENE CAMPAIGN OFFICE AND JOB NETWORK CENTRE” because my senator’s
political manifesto was a debacle that portrays an act questionable in
the court of competent jurisdiction.
My
dear senator, you are sleeping deeper than Senator Eme Ekaette; at
least Eme Ekaette tried by introducing a bill of indecent dressing to
the senate, even though it suffered defeat on the floor of the senate.
The
immediate paragraph is to awaken the consciousness of Senator Helen
Esuene in regards the purported infrastructural development she receive
funds from the federal government in its behalf, there is a great need
for our Senator to mimic the unique political characteristics of the
Late U.J. ESUENE (her husband) in regards development.
Please
my dearest Senator, do not misconstrue the essence of this letter, my
wish for you is to sleep little and wake early to attain to the pressing
needs of the people who gave you their vote to secure your senatorial
dream, if you let them down, as you are about to, then there is no need
having any other ambition.
One love as we partner together for a new, great and uninfluenced Akwa Ibom 2015 and its continuity
Written by
Edet Edet
Eket
+234 818-428-9288
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