Community urges A/Ibom gov to implement ruling on creek
Ekid-speaking people of Akwa Ibom State have again urged Governor Umo Eno to take necessary steps to implement various court rulings affirming their ownership of the Stubbs Creek Forest, rather than raising a new committee to adjudicate on the matter with their Ibeno neighbours. The Ekid people said that the land matter had since been […]
Ekid-speaking people of Akwa Ibom State have again urged Governor Umo Eno to take necessary steps to implement various court rulings affirming their ownership of the Stubbs Creek Forest, rather than raising a new committee to adjudicate on the matter with their Ibeno neighbours.
The Ekid people said that the land matter had since been resolved by the courts and does not need any further intervention by the state government, as the rulings are unambiguous.
The position of the community is contained in a communique issued at the end of their consultative meeting held at Atan and the Palace of the Paramount Ruler of Eket and made available to journalists on Monday in Abuja.
The communique was jointly signed by the Paramount Ruler, Obong ECD Abia; the President General of Ekid Peoples Union, Dr Sam Udonsak; the National Secretary of the union, Barr. Bassey Dan-Abia and key stakeholders of Ekid Nationality.
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At the expanded stakeholders meeting, the people rejected the Akwa Ibom State governor’s proposed committee on Stubbs Creek Forest, saying that it was unnecessary and suspicious and requested the urgent implementation of previous court rulings on the matter.
The communique noted, “Apart from the suspicious composition, the stakeholders found the committee to be spurious and unnecessary in view of the numerous court judgments spanning over a century and the Statutes of the Legislature which the government has refused to implement.”