https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZMqdjTXQvs
The anti-democratic tendencies of Akwa Ibom state governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio received a major boost with the stopping, today, of a documentary scheduled for airing on the network of African Independent Television (AIT) at the instance of the governor.
Hon Robinson Awak, the member representing Oron Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, had following his recent crusade for attention to the rot in his constituency, had prepared a one hour documentary on the utter decay of infrastructure in Oro land. The documentary was scheduled to be aired today, August 4, 2014. Few minutes to the time, the television station got in touch with him that the programme has been “differed”.
Not satisfied with the import of his documentary being differed, the lawmaker made further inquiries and was told that the Akwa Ibom state governor had ordered that the tape should not be played. Uwak was thereafter asked to come and get back his money,
Satisfied with his executive use of powers, the governor put a call through to the Representative and spent an hour on the phone, cajoling him on the why he should not put his government in bad light by showing the documentary. He told Uwak to come to the lodge for a better approach to the special case of Oro marginalization. He promised that the lawmaker would be accorded access when the lawmaker informed him that he had remained inaccessible.
The documentary was a response to the challenge by government apologists that Oro land has been treated the same way other areas in the state had been treated by the Akpabio administration.
Speaking to our correspondent on the issue, an aide said, “It (The documentary) showcased for the world to see firsthand another side of the uncommon transformation going on in Akwa Ibom state. It was supposed to be used as a counter poise to the serial and wanton use of the media to give an impression that all is too well with the state.”
Meanwhile the Oro-born lawmaker has threatened to put the documentary on CNN and dared the governor to bribe his way out of the global media attention it would present.
He wrote shortly after the botching of his documentary show on his facebook;
“Only the guilty are afraid. Everyday Your Excellency, you air your documentary "Uncommon Transformation" across television stations. I have never gone to bribe any television station to stop it. Your actions today is undemocratic as you have attempted to silence the voice of the voiceless. I will still advice that the concerns of the Oro people be urgently addressed otherwise you may need to fuel your jet and head to CNN to stop the next documentary.

“I wish you a safe flight Sir”.
This is one of a series of statements put out by the lawmaker to call attention to what he calls “criminal and indecent marginalization” of his Oro land. He insists that if his crusade for attention to Oro land would cost him a second term ticket, that he was ready. He decried the lopsided development going on in the state, referring to the governor, for effect, as the “uncommon transformer of Annang land”.
In an attempt to dispel the insinuation that Oro had been marginalised, the Akwa Ibom state Commissioner for Information and Communication, Mr. Aniekan Umanah, took a swipe at the lawmaker calling his statement a “dishonourable verse”. Umanah noted that the governor has developed the state evenly and drew the attention of the lawmaker to such infrastructure as airport, 49 urban roads, Ibaka seaport and the bridge at Etebi Ewang.
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inasmuch as I detest the extent the governor went to stop the lawmaker's documentary, I'm seeing it that government is a continuum, the governor can't be perfect and do everything, that's why the incoming administration will need to concentrate on the areas the governor has not or failed to touch......


and the other hand, those accusing BRF of media propaganda should open their eyes and see for themselves.....

Why are the PDP cankerworms not here to demonstrate their absurd and blind stvpidity??

I've stopped watching many local TV stations, even Channels which I formerly had confidence in.

Garrithe1st: Why are the PDP cankerworms not here to demonstrate their absurd and blind stvpidity??

You'l never see them here since the report is not about Fashola, Aregbeshola or Tinubu.

Looks like Akpabio is being over hyped and has some skeletons in his cupboard as usual.

edoyad: I've stopped watching many local TV stations, even Channels which I formerly had confidence in.

anyone with a discerning mind knows channels has since been bought over by the frog of bourdillon.

Whenever the Truth arrives, PDP will disappear

No be small matter

careytommy:
anyone with a discerning mind knows channels has since been bought over by the frog of bourdillon.

Yes oooo.........Even CNN, BBC and Aljazera have being bought by him.

I only watch NTA and AIT now.

Mr representative what are your own impute,to the development of your constituency,govt is a collective process,

Nigerians in that part of the country are more honest.

I wonder what he has been doing for his own community since he started representing them.

If mr uwak had been representing his people well, then things would have been much better over there.

There's no need pouring mud at the governor because by so doing, he will get his hands dirty because am sure he is also culpable. He has the right to pressure the governor to attend to his part of the state but not this way.

I smell selfishness in his actions.

MisterLongman:

cat got your tongue?

JEITO: I wonder what he has been doing for his own community since he started representing them.

If mr uwak had been representing his people well, then things would have been much better over there.

There's no need pouring mud at the governor because by so doing, he will get his hands dirty because am sure he is also culpable. He has the right to pressure the governor to attend to his part of the state but not this way.

I smell selfishness in his actions.

If you know Akwa Ibom you will understand this man is posturing for the governorship position. As the third largest ethnicity in the state, he is probably trying to convince his people he is the best man for the job. Unfortunately for him, the governorship position is rotated by senatorial zones and it is the turn of Eket zone.

Akwa ibom under Akpabio has undergone uncommon transformation, the fact that a constituency got 50% transformation and the others got got about 80% doesnt take away the fact that there was transformation. Nobody is perfect.

The apesh1t e-rats chanting above can come kiss my black arse for all i care, fvcking supporters of APC.

dozzzybaba: You'l never see them here since the report is not about Fashola, Aregbeshola or Tinubu.

Amaechi too

MisterLongman:

Apartheid In Akwa Ibom State:
Democracy we had hoped will bring good governance all the way. For the people of Oron ethnic nationality comprising of five local governments namely : Okobo,Mbo, Urue offong-Oruko, Udung-Uko, pain, anguish, gnashing of teeth, grief and tears is what democracy, as unleashed by the Chief Dr. Godswill Obot Akpabio(CON) has brought our way. Despite the fact that these five local governments account for over 80% of the 99% revenue accruing to the state from oil revenue(The state earns only 1% revenue from other sources of revenue) the Oro people have no idea of what "uncommon Transformation " feels like or looks like. To have an idea of what "uncommon transformation " feels like you have to travel all the way to the Annang speaking part of the state where Akpabio hails from. Tired of waiting for the "uncommon transformation " to reach them well over 7years of the 8years tenure of Akpabio, the people of Oro decided to put up a documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZMqdjTXQvs Calling on government to come to their aid owing to gargantuan level of infrastructure decay in their community. They managed to put together the required funding to pay AIT to air the documentary only to be told that Akpabio had ordered AIT not to air the said documentary. Imagine what it feels like to be oppressed and cannot speak out. This can only be APARTHEID. Please join in giving voice to the voiceless. Please append your initial and rebroadcast to give voice to the oppressed. God bless you.
Hon Robinson Uwak

Atouke: Apartheid In Akwa Ibom State:
Democracy we had hoped will bring good governance all the way. For the people of Oron ethnic nationality comprising of five local governments namely : Okobo,Mbo, Urue offong-Oruko, Udung-Uko, pain, anguish, gnashing of teeth, grief and tears is what democracy, as unleashed by the Chief Dr. Godswill Obot Akpabio(CON) has brought our way. Despite the fact that these five local governments account for over 80% of the 99% revenue accruing to the state from oil revenue (The state earns only 1% revenue from other sources of revenue) the Oro people have no idea of what "uncommon Transformation " feels like or looks like. To have an idea of what "uncommon transformation " feels like you have to travel all the way to the Annang speaking part of the state where Akpabio hails from. Tired of waiting for the "uncommon transformation " to reach them well over 7years of the 8years tenure of Akpabio, the people of Oro decided to put up a documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZMqdjTXQvs Calling on government to come to their aid owing to gargantuan level of infrastructure decay in their community. They managed to put together the required funding to pay AIT to air the documentary only to be told that Akpabio had ordered AIT not to air the said documentary. Imagine what it feels like to be oppressed and cannot speak out. This can only be APARTHEID. Please join in giving voice to the voiceless. Please append your initial and rebroadcast to give voice to the oppressed. God bless you.
Hon Robinson Uwak

guy dey lie small small na. go HERE and tell me how that is possible.

Who needs AIT when YouTube is here. All he succeeded in doing is giving it a wider publicity. With AIT people me probably wouldn't have heard about it,but now I can see it.

All those animals wants to eat their cakes and have it,forgetting that this is a new world order where even six year olds are bombarded with instant infofmation.