Friday, March 19, 2010

Help Tell The Jews What Obong Attah Wants

Leave them alone,
Leave them to be
Men lost to shame,
To honour lost!
Servant kinglets,
Riding to war
Against their own...
- R. E. G. Armattoe

Earnestly, I don't have anything in mind against the Jews, afterall, I am made to understand that the whole people occupying Akwa Ibom State and Southern part of Cross River State (including myself) migrated from the Jewish stock of the Sinai peninsular. Though sometimes last year, I wrote a sort of reactionary piece in one of the local tabloids which I titled, “Obong Attah's open letter and the truth about the Jews”. In the said article, I exposed inherently some of the Jewish traits that are found in (the behaviours of) our people. It was an extensive write-up which was propelled by a sycophantic advertorial published by Engr. Udo Mbosoh, (in National and Local tabloids) who, in trying to please the sitting governor (in a bid to influence some contracts) condemned Obong Attah's professional advice to his former commissioner (now the state governor), Chief Godswill Akpabio.
In today's piece, I will also expose other Jews who are even more sycophantic in their behaviours and thoughts of recent, than Mr. Udo Mbosoh.

But before I go on, let me quickly tender an unreserved apology to the people of Akwa Ibom State who are Jews the people of God. Let me also say that it is not my intention to always see the Jews in the negative perspective. But I have to do so in order to give you the background to some people's behaviour in our dear state.

Of all Jews scattering all over Africa, the Ibibio Jews are those that brought with them the negative aspects of the original Jews. These include: selling of birthrights, betrayal, denial, casting the first stone on their leaders, hypocrisy, eye-service/sycophancy, etc.

Remember, the first article I wrote about the Jews was motivated by the hypocritic nature of Engr. Udo Mbosoh when he came out condemning Obong Attah's Open letter. This second one is still propelled by yet, another malbehaviours of a certain group of men whom I had much regards for in days before now. This group of men, just like Udo Mbosoh, has sought to know what Obong Attah want just to please the sitting governor. Because of this, they have resorted to attacking Obong Victor Attah on pages of Newspapers (Though it does not hold water).

Before I move on to tell them what Obong Attah (though I am not his spokesman) wants, I will like to tell you the little I know about them. The Jews by all standards are hypocrites who would not mind “shouting crucify him, crucify him!” to a man whom they once shouted “hosanna, hosanna! Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord”. They are those who sees nothing wrong in slaughtering their integrity and respect on the alter of greed. They are those who will sell their brothers because he has a dream. They are those who will tell lies in order to tarnish the reputation of their kinsman.

In fact, the Jews are not only those who crucify Jesus Christ of Nazareth, but are also those that deny their master (brother) before the first cock crows in order to be friendly with the enemies. They are not only those that worship in synagogue(s), but include all those that play politics with bitterness.

Recently, Obong Victor Attah, the former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Senator J. J. Akpanudoedeghe, former Senator, and former Minister of FCT, Group Captain Sam Enwang, former Military Governor of Rivers and Ogun States and Otuekong Idongesit Udokpo, former Commissioner for Special Duties, jointly wrote an article on pages of National tabloids, condemning the security situation of the state and blaming the government (which every right-thinking person also does) for lacking the political will to tame kidnapping and general insecurity in the state. Though the said article says that kidnapping is only targeted at the Ibibios (which of course is nothing but the truth). In fact, I support, let all of us support the fact that the situation in Akwa Ibom today is in “furtherance of a well planned ethnic cleansing originated at the crises of the Ibibio Union of Old”

But to my greatest surprise, that article which was given a nod by a greater percentage of Akwa Ibom people was (and still is) attacked by Otuekong Idongesit Nkanga, Sunny Jackson Udoh, Chief (Mrs.) Helen Esuene, Akparawa Godwin Ntuk Udeh, Capt. Iniobong Ekong, Obong Peter Ekpe Atakpo, Obong Bassey Inuaeyen, and Dr. Maurice Ebong. These Jews, instead of advising the state government to live up to (the) expectation, resorted to asking, rather Jewishly, a question that has no basis: “What does Obong Victor Attah want?” (published in both local and national tabloids).

Let me tell them that Obong Attah is neither looking for contract nor position (because he is contented with the little he has); but all what he is looking for is the political will to tame kidnapping, insecurity, poverty, assassination, hunger, and corruption that are hanging like a sword of Damocle on the the “head” of Akwa Ibom State. What Obong Attah wants is to see the oil money which he laboured for being used judiciously, he wants ring roads to be constructed and not Tropicana and flyover which are now conduit pipes through which our money disappears.

I think Obong Attah and his co-signatories would want the government to stop awarding one kilometer road at the cost of one billion Naira. They want political motivated kidnapping and killings to stop forth within Akwa Ibom State.

In fact, Obong Attah and his co-signatories want Akwa Ibom people to be properly informed; they want the people to know (of course they know) that Airport, Le Meridien, Golf Course, APICO house, museum, Stock Exchange building, Ibaka seaport, hundreds of roads, Ibom Science Park, Ultra-modern motor parks, Ibom Plaza, Displays Machine at UUTH, Shelter Afrique, Osong Ama, Ewet Housing and other estates scattering all over the 31 Local Government Areas, House of Assembly Complex, Judiciary Complex, Governor's Lodge, Ibom Power Plants and other projects which are now claimed to be the works of Governor Akpabio, were done by Obong Attah.


Who are the Jews? To me Jews are the “mme-efre-mfon”. They are those who once upon a time dined and wined with Obong Victor Attah who they now want to nail. They are those who did not see anything good in Akpabio's aspiration, but now they have suddenly joined his choir of praise-singers.


Otuekong, Idongesit Nkanga is now combat ready to nail anybody that is aspiring to take over from Chief Akpabio (his master), forgetting that he too had aspired to unseat Obong Attah. Since he could not succeed, Attah being a Christian, on seeing that he was left with nothing to make ends meet, compensated him by appointing him (Otuekong Nkanga) the Chairman of Ibom Airport implementation committee, with executive powers the position he still holds till today, though the executive functions seem to have been withdrawn from him.

Should I go on talking about Sunny Jackson Udoh whom Obong Attah gave a contract to furnish Le Meridien (5-star) Hotel under the name of Jackson Davos? Should I also write about Obong Bassey Inuaeyen who renovated Government House during Obong Attah? Is it necessary to mention Akparawa Ntuk Udeh who seems to forget the past in a hurry, after furnishing Governor's Lodge, House of Assembly Complex and Presidential Lodge? Is it pertinent to tell you here who endorsed Mrs. Helen Esuene for ministerial appointment?

Will it be a waste of ink if I start writing about Captain Iniobong Ekong, Obong Peter Ekpe Atakpo and Dr. Maurice Ebong?
Let me conclude by reminding my readers that though we migrated from Israel, according to Nabi Umoh-faithmann, some of us have let go some negative attitudes, while some still hold onto them. Therefore, the Jews are not necessarily those that migrated from Israel, but are those who denied their friends, and are those who sit in the council of the ungodly and support inequities.

Earnestly, it was because of the behaviours of men like those I have mentioned above, who also migrated from Israel to form Ghanaian Jews that propelled R. E. G. Armattoe, a Ghanaian poet to advice his kinsmen to “leave them alone/leave them to be/ men lost of shame/to honour lost! Servant Kinglets/Riding to war/Against their own/watched by their foes/who urge them on/And laugh at them!”. This is nothing but Salient Points, so spare me!.

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