Wednesday April 28, 2010 was one day I considered that some of my fellow Akwa Ibomites (few of us) that have grown through ill-gotten wealth have gone mad.
My short prayer that day was that by the grace of God those will pay back with great pains. The attitude of this few have impoverished the majority who also live in fear. This situation continues to grow astronomically in the Land of Promise and I ask: how then can we get there?
I missed my flight from Uyo airport the particular day because airport highway was blocked by hired miscreants who were there to receive our Governor Akpabio. I wondered why? The Governor was returning to the State from his recent overseas' trip. He was holed up by disruption caused by the Volcanic Ash, just like every other person that tried travelling through the European air space.
Idle youths were hired in their thousands to chant welcome songs for our returning governor Akpabio as if he is Idi Amin or Bokassa or Stalin or Hitler et al. Citizens' commercial activities must be disrupted to draw attention to our governor's return otherwise he would return unnoticed, he (they) reckoned.
This type of thing is happening in a part of a democratic Nigeria. A brother squealed that the governor's men must have arranged crowd to counter the unprecedented crowd Senator James Udoedehe pulled penultimate Saturday when he flagged off his campaign for the Government House 2011.
I wonder if such situation could or did happen in Edo, Rivers, Imo, Bauchi and other States whose Governors were also holed-out by the Volcanic Ash disruption. I think we need to examine the brains of majority of those now in government in our State; it may not be only the looting of the treasury that is going on, psychiatric end-out might be involved also.
Obong Okon Emerson, 95 Awolowo Way, IKEJA.
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