The people of Ene Ekpene Village council has thrown their weight of support behind the last empowerment of Senator Helen Esuene describing a publication which sought to discredit the empowerment in one of the state based tabloids (not THE INK) as spurious and unfounded.
In a communiqué signed by Chief Enim Ekandem, village head and Deacon (Chief) Akanimo Tom and made available to our reporter last weekend, the village council said, we can say that the 2013 empowerment scheme was a rare display of selfless, avowed commitment to positively affecting the lives of her people. The event which was held at the Qua Iboe church Primary School, Usung Inyang Eket saw no fewer than 290 people empowered with various car gifts, sewing machines, hair dressing equipments, giant screen TV sets, standing fans, musical equipments, gas cookers, deep freezers, cameras, financial assistance and scholarship to the admiration of all present.
The point is Essien road by Sanni Ogun by Chubb road junction in Ikot Ekpene Local Government Area were a distributing company known as Esther and sons is located. The road has so far claimed not less than fifty five lives in the past one month. On the 29th of September, 2013, the road claimed two lives in less than twenty minutes which sent spines and tension down the spines of residents of the area.
Our correspondents gathered that the place has become a death trap because of the wayward manner vehicles and trucks belonging to the company Esther and Sons are parked. These vehicles are parked in such a way that a greater percentage of the road is blocked and does not give way to easy flow of traffic and at the same time, does not also allow the oncoming vehicles to see the other which has always lead to a direct and headlong collision along the junction. Not less than fifty five lives have so far been lost to road accident in the area and the police and Federal Road Safety corps appears helpless on the situation, a competent source said.
