Isantim kenneth Okon, Council Chairman |
Chairman of Etinan Local Government Area Isantim Kenneth Okon has waded
into the imminent crises that was threatening the legislative arm of the Local
Government Area following what not less than nine councilors described as the
impeachable offences committed by the Leader Hon Item Etuk and Deputy Inemesit
Itina.
A political warfare was
imminent in the legislative council of Etinan Local Government Area following
what the aggrieved Councilors of the area described as the selfishness,
greediness and financial recklessness and the dubious attitude of their leader
and Deputy Hon. Item Etuk and Hon. Inemesit Itina respectively.
Hon. Item Etuk, House Leader |
The nine councilors had
earlier threatened to impeach the leader and his deputy last weekend. While
addressing newsmen in a press conference, the aggrieved councilors maintained
that, contrary to the information planted by their leader and deputy on their
promise to back Isantim Kenneth Okon for the 2015 Etinan state constituency
race, that they never did so. The councilors in a ten paragraph disclaimer had
stated that there was no time the legislators met to discuss the 2015 political
fate of the state constituency and described the publications which had earlier
alleged that they have promised to do everything humanly possible to ensure
that the council boss Isantim Kenneth Okon emerges the next House of Assembly
member for the constituency as the figment of the imagination of the leader and
his deputy.
Inemesit Itina, Deputy House Leader |
The aggrieved
legislators while extolling the qualities of the Etinan council boss Isantim
Kenneth Okon maintained that the decision of the leader and the deputy leader
Hon. Item Etuk and Inemesit Itina to go to press with such story is a
calculated attempt they have employed to dupe the council chairman whom they
described as a hardworking council boss.
The councilor’s
insistence on impeaching the Leader and his Deputy had however caused the
council chairman Isantim Kenneth Okon to step into the imminent crises and
appeal for calm. Kenneth Okon had however distanced himself from the
publications saying he never authorized its usage. Isantim Kenneth Okon
popularly known as Wayas stated this when he had a closed door meeting with the
councilors over the weekend.
Our reporter gathered
that the council chairman had informed the councilors that he didn’t authorize
the Leader and Deputy leader to go to press with the misleading information
that the councilors have vowed to do everything possible to ensure that he
succeeds Sam Ikom as the next House of Assembly member. Isantim Kenneth Okon is
said to have informed that he did not authorize the publication that the
councilors will do everything to ensure that he wins the Etinan State
constituency seat come 2015.
The aggrieved
Councilors who are about nine in numbers are said to have told the council boss
that they do not have anything against him and whether he has an interest to
proceed to the House of Assembly by 2015 or not but that their grievances stem
from the fact that the leader and Deputy Hon. Item Etuk and Inemesit Itina
proceeded to misrepresent them at the press. The councilors maintained to the
chairman that during last plenary of Etinan legislative council, the
legislators never discussed the political fate and future of Etinan State constituency
as regards 2015 and that with the decision of the leader and his Deputy giving
contrary information to the press, they should resign or will be impeached.
Isantim Kenneth Okon is
said to have told councilors not to see the action of the leader and Deputy
Item Etuk and Inemesit Itina respectively of getting his backing, he is alleged
to have denied in totality the action of the leader and Deputy. Meanwhile the
Etinan lawmakers are said to have insisted on the resignation of the Leader and
Deputy with an argument that they may one day wake-up to read stories not
emanating from them. The councilors had used that opportunity to advise the
council chairman Obong keneth Okon that he should be wary of the likes of Item
Etuk and Inemsit Itina.
Sensing that the mood
in the legislative council was high, Kenneth Okon is said to have begged the
councilors against proceeding on an impeachment of the leader. An aide to the
Chairman said the meeting between the councilors and his boss was to discuss
the progress of Etinan Local Government Area. Our source said the chairman had
to intervene in the imminent crises so that all factions will have their issues
settled.
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