Akwa Ibom: Gov Eno Appoints 368 Aides
... Sues For Calm
Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno, has appealed to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, faithfuls who were unable to make the list of appointees in the just released 368 One-Per-Ward Personal Assistant Appointment to remain calm and committed to the party.
Gov Eno assured that more opportunities are available for deserving members to contribute their quota towards the realization of the A.R.I.S.E. Agenda blueprint and overall success of the administration.
The governor was addressing his Exco members, Political Stakeholders, top government functionaries and a cross section of the people of the State who congregated for the October edition of the Monthly Covenant Service held at the Banquet Hall, Government House, Uyo.
He disclosed that the 368 appointments was the first in the series of his determined efforts at ensuring an all embracing government as promised the people during his electioneering campaign and hinted that 4000 appointments across all units for the Neighborhood City Watch Programme as well as the 40 appointments for the Songhai Model Farm Programme are pending opportunities to accommodate indigenes of the State.
He noted that the appointees were as qualified and deserving as those who couldn't make it, adding that issues raised by those who couldn't make the list were genuine and solicited the understanding of the importuned, explaining that the appointment could not accommodate everybody in the first instance.
In furtherance of his administration's disposition to run a government of inclusivity, Governor Eno announced his readiness to meet with stakeholders from the 31 Local Government Areas of the state, to share ideas on modalities to best implement the proposed one project Per Local Government Initiative.
"On Monday we'll be holding our stakeholders meeting in the evening by 4pm with each local government bringing 20 persons and I trust that the leaders will not go and take people from one household and call them stakeholders. Please I expect at least one ward leader to be in that list, plus critical people. Everybody, again, cannot be on that list.
"Why are we doing this? It's just to be able to share what we plan to do in each Local Government Area in three months. So we want to throw it open for you to go back home, think and within the week tell us the real need to enable us look at them be it school, hospital, water or a market project but it must be a rural development project," he stated.
The governor announced that the stakeholders meeting will be followed by an all-women meeting, then a meeting with the male and female youths separately with him to further enhance grassroots involvement in his government.
He congratulated Akwa Ibom people on the 63rd Independence anniversary of Nigeria and prayed for God's 'wisdom upon the leaders to make Nigeria better.
"Nigeria is 63 years since independence and I trust God that the older we grow the better we'll get and the days ahead will be good for us. The bible enjoins us to pray for those in authority. Let's pray for the President, let's pray for our State and the governor, for wisdom because wisdom is needed to navigate a lot of things and it is the principal thing. I want to thank all of you for coming and wish you a happy Independence celebration", he remarked.
Earlier, State Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Bishop Christian Nyong, in a homily tagged "Peace Be Still", culled from Mark 4:37-39, exposited that life is a journey and at various points of the journey storms arise in forms of troubles, disturbances, agitations and invasion of our peaceful atmosphere.
This, he said, every human is prone to, irrespective of status or level of attainments.
The Cleric exhorted that no trouble of life is insurmountable to God's people, as God has endowed them with power to speak as Jesus did to the wind and caused peace to swallow up any situation and admonished the congregation to believe in God and activate the power of God in them in the face of afflictions.
