Govt should incorporate the physically challenged - Ekanem

Mr Edmond Ekanem, the Chairman of the Physically Challenged Persons Association of Nigeria, Akwa Ibom state chapter spoke to KING UMANA..

What is the Association all about?
It is about bringing the physically handicapped from across all the 31 L.G.A’s in Akwa Ibom state, to assemble and encourage them, to bring out their potentials and direct them to useful purposes. It is also about harnessing these potentials and bringing them to the fore for the government to make use of them. We are part and parcel of the citizens of Akwa Ibom State, and as such, the association is a platform to reveal who we are ; we mobilize ourselves to participate in government activities, it is a platform that encourages our members to take part in civic responsibilities, exercising political franchise, participating in government, economy, and social programs, in fact, it is a socio-political organization that we use to advance our ambitions, potentialities, so  as to be made useful in life and join other citizens in national building.

The association liaises with government and other bodies to create employment opportunities, secure scholarships, empowerment, skill acquisition training, etc for our members

Again Captain Ekong denies Play Terrace, says it is a tenant in Least Pay - Explains rationale behind company

Despite the fact that Play Terrace night club is located on the premises of Least Pay group of companies and whereas captain Iniobong Ekong, rtd Special Adviser to the Governor of the state on security matters has always been linked to the ownership of the club, the Nigerian Defence Academy Graduate last Friday denied ownership of the club located along Aka road in Uyo claiming the lounge is a tenant to Least Pay. 

Speaking while addressing a section of media executives in Uyo, the Nsit Ubium born ex-military man who is retired but not tired and presides over the affairs of Least Pay Group of Companies as the Chairman said he had to host the media chiefs that date because heneeded to consolidate on his relationship with members of the fourth estate of the realm.

Iniobong Ekong said “my desire to host you today was not entirely because we neededpress coverage, no. it is part of my relationship with quite a number of you here that at the end of every year, we always meet. Why today’s own is different is that a lot of you here did not have the intuition including my brother here (apparently referring to Joe Effiong, the immediate past NUJ chairman, AKS)to suspect that in the month of December, I will go to my village to play masquerade, you felt I was out of the country, you didn’t bother to check on me as friends and brothers. And because of that failure, there was a debt I had to pay. I posited that the Christmas goat cannot just go without my brothers in the press; at least they should have a bite of either the bone or the skin. 

SSG Spits fire- Why govt. can’t build industries

I am from Eket senatorial district

It was a cold Monday morning in Uyo and it was time for select Publishers and Editors of print media Houses to meet with the secretary to the State Government Mr. Udom Emmanuel. This meeting though was at the instance of the SSG was called quickly the week after the SSG had visited his Awa ward to revalidate his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party where he was accused to have made away with the ward register and strucked out a name to replace with his own.

But what was the essence of the meeting? Was it for the SSG to clear the air on his visit to Onna or to speak up on his rumoured interest in the forthcoming 2015 gubernatorial election for the position of the Governorship of Akwa Ibom State? This story will reveal.