- Inibehe Effiong has criticized Umo Eno over alleged misplaced priorities, sparking blended reactions amongst residents.
- In line with him, the state is going through vital challenges regardless of its assets.
- He alleged widespread poverty, unemployment, and poor academic infrastructure, portray what he described as a troubling image of dwelling circumstances within the state.
Human rights lawyer Inibehe Effiong has sparked recent debate over governance and accountability in Akwa Ibom State following his criticism of Governor Umo Eno.
In a publish shared on X, Effiong accused the governor of prioritising private luxurious over the welfare of residents, a declare that has since generated blended reactions amongst residents.
In line with him, the state is going through vital challenges regardless of its assets. He alleged widespread poverty, unemployment, and poor academic infrastructure, portray what he described as a troubling image of dwelling circumstances within the state.
Effiong additionally criticised what he termed a tradition of political patronage, claiming that fundamental gadgets have been being distributed to residents whereas leaders lived in consolation.
He additional accused the governor of extravagant spending, together with constructing a private residence shortly after taking workplace.
“Rice for girls, N50,000 for the youths, t-shirts and drinks for campaigners, whereas ‘His Excellency’ wears sneakers price tens of millions of Naira.
That is the unhappy story of a wealthy State with dilapidated faculties in all places, a State that’s infamous for prime unemployment, about 600,000 out of faculty kids and embarrassing stage of poverty.
Inside his first few months in workplace, Governor Umo Eno began and accomplished a mansion for himself in Ewet Housing Property (the costliest a part of the State).
He has continued the ostentatious life-style and really reckless waste of assets like his predecessors.
I see folks praising him for his excellent dressing and style sense. That’s what you get when folks transition from residents to slaves.
The insanity in Akwa Ibom can’t be cured by prayers and fasting. When folks don’t ask important questions, politicians get away with homicide.
Umo Eno has gotten away with homicide.”