By Omen Bassey
There's something wrong if eleven appointments are made in one fell
swoop and the joy of the moment is not spread across all sections of the
State. Read more post below as shared.....
I don't know how anybody can justify the kind of lopsidedness we are currently witnessing in this State.
Please let's not forget that "What is sauce for the goose is also sauce for the gander"
As badly treated as Oro was under Chief Godswilll Akpabio, it had three Commissioners. Under Obong Victor Attah, although we had two Commissioners, we produced the Speaker of the State House of Assembly, State Chairman of the ruling Party and Chairmen of strategic/statutory Boards and Commissions.
Akpabio added one Commissioner and took every other important position.During his administration, he would always consider Oro as an afterthought after much complaints and lamentations. That was how Late Dame Grace Anwana, Arc. Otu Toyo and Prof. Okon Eminue became Head of Civil Service, Chairman, Local Government Service Commission and Chairman, Governing Council of Akwa Ibom State University respectively.
From the day one of this administration, it was obvious that it doesn't think Oro exists in the allocation of offices.Today, some Local Government Areas in the State have more appointments than the five Local Government Areas of Oro Nation put together. Can anyone contradict or justify this?
Regrettably, it seems the more we complain and lament,the more emboldened our Governor becomes in rubbing bags of salt in our bleeding sore.Is it not curious that the entire Oro Nation doesn't have a full time Chairman of any State government owned Board, Commission and Parastatal?
It has become normal for Oro people to carry long faces and bleed within while the rest of the State cling glasses in celebration of appointments.
Let me warn that nobody should appoint anybody from Oro into an office which has been squeezed empty just so that he will have explanations to make during campaigns.We already know those antics.
Any appointment which doesn't come this year is generally no longer a proper appointment but a subterfuge to win votes and abandon the victims again after the elections. We are wiser now.The electorates are becoming increasingly sophisticated and aware of their rights.
We are watching events with keen interest . The days of reckoning are fast approaching. Servitude hasn't lasted forever anywhere in the World.
"This too shall pass away"
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