One of the affected compounds It wasn't even a cat-and-dog rain on the night of Saturday, June 1, 2024. It was merely a cat-and-cat plaything. But an angry flood, like a gang of robbers, broke a fence, rushed into a compound and clobbered a retired director of SUBEB to death! Chief Anselem Etuk had a settled evening in his No 10, D- Line, Ewet Housing Extension, Uyo, residence. He discussed with some tenants, said good night to his wife in the adjourning room, returned to his chamber and went to bed. Akwa Ibom State Director of ISPON, Mr Ita Benson Utah, inspecting the collapsed fence, where the flood entered from. But behind his fence, unknown to him, a wicked and havoc-prone flood gradually gathered as the pitter-patter-sounding rain induced a calming sleep. The deafening bang of his collapsed fence startled him awake, just like it did to other occupants. Then, a rushing, cold liquid shocked him out of his sleepy state. Chief Etuk made to swim out of his room as the ...
The foam that appears after you shake detergent in water isn’t real. Children who play with the bubbles soon realise that just a little while, they burst and disappear.
Well, that’s the nature of economy that the former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, left behind, according to Senate President Godswil Akpabio.
Foam and bubbles are mirage, fake and unreal. Yet, Akpabio insists that Emefiele ran a “foam economy”, deceiving the nation that all was well.
“I still stand by my position,” said Senator Akpabio, arguing that the former CBN boss “left a very big hole in the national treasury.”
But he urged Nigerians to be patient with the Tinubu-led administration, as it inherited
a battered economy which he is currently trying to fix.
Akpabio, addressing a mammoth crowd at a reception organised by his kinsmen in Ikot Ekpene Senatorial District in his honour,
expressed confidence that though the times are hard, the economy will soon bounce back stronger.
President Bola Tinubu, he assured, has the capacity to redirect the economy on the trajectory of growth, reenacting the magic he did in Lagos State as governor.
Under Tinubu, there will be even distribution of amenities, he assured. The planned coastal road from Lagos to Calabar, for instance, will cut across various states in the Southwest, South-East and the South-South political zones, with attendant socio-economic benefits.
With Akpabio at the national stage, Akwa Ibom people need not worry about the long overdue Deep Seaport, as well as other federal government projects.
“You have asked of a seaport, you will not only get Seaport, you will get roads, flyovers, and other federal projects, and we are going to do this because of you,” he said to intermittent cheers.
His colleagues in the National Assembly, including Deputy Senate President, Jibrin Barau, and the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, joined the cheering crowd to extol the leadership virtues of Senator Akpabio,m. They noted that as the chairman of the National Assembly, Akpabio has been a stabilising influence in the executive-legislative harmony.
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