"Where was Attah when the
fight for Derivation ensued? Where was Attah when the war for the
abolition of the Dichotomy in Revenue Attribution erupted? These
defining benchmarks were chalked up at the National Conference of 1994.
Attah, even though a member of the Conference, did not feature in those
momentous events for reasons not far removed from his personal political
ambitions.
The din and noise that featured in his tenure as governor
over the subject of "resource control" was an exercise in brigandy and
more so after the fact.
The National Conference having taken full
cognisance of the anchorage of Fiscal Federalism by provisioning
"Derivation as an irreversible component of Revenue Administration of
this Country. Questions must be asked about the real achievements of the
ill defined and cacophonous "Resource Control" campaign.
"The truth
is that the campaign endangered our inheritance to the extent of
inciting a ruinous response from President Obasanjo who with his
Attorney General, the late Bola Ige instituted actions and processes in
court which for a long while strangulated this State.
Obong Attah can
save us the angst of his self serving pontificating because they
painfully remind us of missed opportunities with him as Governor.
Needless to remind him of the serial deprivation of our State by his
uncanny penchant for mis-steps in the management of our patrimony.
Whatever for example happened to the State's Investment in Econet
Communications Ltd? Or again for the record what is the truth about the
FG's investment in Ibom Power? How did we end up without a viable
financial institution to drive economic details in this State? What is
the true saga of the Cooperative Development Bank that was largely owned
by people and institutions of our State?
What has happened to over four
hundred staff of the bank from this State who lost their jobs following
the disaster of the contrived and intriguing hand over of our bank to a
distantly inferior entity. Please do not stir nauseating recalls."
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