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| Nse Ekpenyong. |
A member of the Federal House of Representatives, representing Oron federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Nse Ekpenyong may soon lose his seat as his constituents have resolved to start his recall process over what they described as poor performance on his part.
The
constituents under the aegis of Coalition for Development (C4D), said Hon.
Ekpenyong is unable to engage authorities to stall the planned relocation of
Ibaka Deep seaport by the Akwa Ibom state government.
The
Ibaka Deep Seaport was conceived by the Victor Attah administration but
was ignored during the eight years of Godswill Akpabio as governor but the
current Governor, Udom Emmanuel however made it a campaign issue and moved the
port to somewhere in Ibeno LGA where he is allegedly making plans to build a
dugout port.
Speaking
to newsmen in Uyo on Sunday, the Lead Advocate of Coalition for Development
(C4D), Alexander Asuquo, lamented that Oron nation was being strangled by the silence
of their representative when he said: “Ibaka Deep Seaport and Maritime
University are the most important issues on the minds of an average Oron person
at the moment and as important as these issues are, the member representing
Oron federal constituency has maintained a conspiratorial silence over them and
the silence is killing us.
“Oro
people have elected to take the bull by the horns by petitioning relevant
authorities to prevent the politically motivated, environmentally destructive
and scientifically manipulated relocation of the seaport which the executive at
the federal level has purportedly approved the relocation of Ibaka Deep Seaport
to Ibeno and other arms of the federal government, such as the legislature and
judiciary still have constitutional powers to question the relocation and
the purported approval.
“The
National Assembly has the power under the constitution to halt the relocation
and it would take for the issue to be brought to the attention of the National
Assembly in a motion backed by empirically verifiable scientific, engineering
and historical data. A motions do not move themselves. Someone has to move it.
This is why he must speak for us or return home,” Mr Asuquo affirmed.
He
insisted that Oron was “an environmentally raped community, a politically
subjugated ethnic nationality, and economically challenged people,” who cannot
afford to have a ‘silent’ lawmaker trading with their destinies.
Asuquo
says that the “The quietness and ineffectiveness of Nse Ekpenyong have huge
consequences and we cannot ignore it anymore. We must correct our collective
mistakes through a Recall as “Nse Ekpenyong was not only uniformed and unaware
of governance and the essence of representative democracy, but that he was also
insensitive to the effects of his deficiency.”
Reacting,
the Personal Assistant to the Reps member, Collins Jackson opposed the recall
agitation, saying his boss is a “silent achiever and listed his bosses achievements
in six years to include the renovation of three classroom blocks, construction
of two boreholes, provision of two street lights, construction of 2km of road,
construction of one school block and construction of one community hall.
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