Mrs Helen Esune, Senator Representing Eket Senatorial District in Akwa Ibom State
By Aniefiok Macauley-- I want to believe that this is another campaign of calumny by paid agents to pull down the personality of senator Esuene. A common sense would have told the likes of Edet Friday Edet, whether this is his real name or pseudo as the case may be that the constitutional function of any lawmaker is to make laws for the good governance of the society, any other thing is jara.
I believe that if Edet had really wanted to have audience with Esuene, he knows how to go about it but resorting to social media and the net, to me portrays you as mischief maker and blackmailer having a failed attempt to collect money from Esuene in what ever guise when you did not even support her candidacy during the campaigns.
I believe that if Edet is not mischievous or paid by some people who think should the senator throw her hat into the political ring in 2015, their chances will be dimmed, he would have been bold enough to just deliver his letter the at the senator's constituency office.
Except for the blind and myopic blackmailers like Edet, I know as a person that within two years Esuene as a senator, has secured employment for over 50 indigenes of ESD in various federal government agencies, am also aware that more than 75 students in tertiary institutions across the country from the senatorial district are under the senator's scholarship scheme and at least 3 are doing Masters Degree abroad. Each of these students get One Hundred Thousand Naira at the beginning of every session.
For the information of such misinformed bigots like Edet, am aware of several efforts and appeal that Esuene has made to Governor Akpabio over the deplorable roads in the senatorial district and more importantly the need for the establishment of the Oil Mineral Producing Commission to take charge of the development of the senatorial district and all other oil bearing areas.
Except for the likes of Edet who appears to be seeking attention and relevance where he does not deserve it, I am also aware of other developmental strides the senator has brought to the senatorial district using the NDDC.
To refresh Edet's memory which I am afraid is suffering from memory loss, Ufot Ekaette was for 8 years SGF and one year as the Pioneer Minister of the Niger Delta Ministry while the wife Eme was in the Senate for 4 years making it 13 years of unbroken occupation of position at the federal level.
Within those supposedly wasteful years, can Edet tell us how many Akwa Ibom people that the Ekaettes empowered, paid school fees for, gave employment in strategic ministries? Today, we can hardly have an Akwa Ibom person as a senior director in a strategic federal ministry but our man was once an engine room of the FG. In Onna, may be apart from the bush track called road that leads to Ekaette's house in Ikot Edor that was tarred because he was to give his daughter in marriage, can Edet show any development that was brought to the senatorial district by the Ekaettes in spite of the fact that NDDC was under Ufot's office, how many Akwa Ibom people benefited from the NAPEP which was under his office.
I could remember vividly that the people of Onna and Eket senatorial district once organized a solemn assembly to pray to God to touch Ufot Ekaette's heart so as to remember his people and the state at large. For the wife, the only thing i can recollect she did in her four years as a senator was to send some 120 on six months training in maritime academy Oron without kits to start their trade at completion.
Finally, if your pay masters are afraid that Esuene will defeat them at the polls, let them leave primordial sentiments and concentrate on selling themselves, who knows if they are quality products ESD and Akwa Ibom may give them a try.
*Aniefiok Macauley, a political analyst writes from Uyo. Can be reached through (0802-832-6634)
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