Joe Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Boosted By An Atlantic Ocean Offshore Oil worker and Pastor’s Tragedy, Dixon Family Services and Eket Projects — OUR SLOW PACE OF DEVELOPMENT DUE TO PERSECUTION OF LEADERS -NDUESE ESSIEN TELLS AKWA IBOM PEOPLE
Joe Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Boosted By An Atlantic Ocean Offshore Oil worker and Pastor’s Tragedy, Dixon Family Services and Eket Projects — OUR SLOW PACE OF DEVELOPMENT DUE TO PERSECUTION OF LEADERS -NDUESE ESSIEN TELLS AKWA IBOM PEOPLE
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The Sounds of a City, Peril and Anatomical Port Redemption Clues in the Atlantic Ocean Embellished by Obama’s Deep State — A Journalist’s Ballad for Udoh Who Passed Away Last Month in Patani near Port Harcourt Enroute Akwa Ibom. Updated after attendance at a World Press Freedom Day award ceremony for a Local Philanthropist at the Nigerian Union Of Journalists Headquarters and sudden death of a local Redeemed Church of God Pastor Kenneth Ima who collapsed after a tank inspection at an Offshore Rig in the Atlantic Ocean Sunday. He was life flighted to a Port Harcourt Hospital and I was told he succumbed Monday morning from an heart ailment. In 2021 I wrote about the hazards of working offshore. They say his last Sermon penultimate Sunday was for his congregation to pray and seek breakthrough for Orphans, because they are special. I told a relative to tell his widow that her husband’s death is not in vain and that like Murdered Son, God used him for a special purpose. Pastor Kenneth Ima from Port Harcourt who worked offshore for Royal Dutch Shell was 38.
Check the link for the Perils of Working Offshore, published in the Hawthorne, Los Angeles Based The Africa Times. There was a lot of spying on Nigeria because of me from the Offshore especially in 2014 when i suffered a broken foot (fifth Metartasal and was on bed rest for three months in Calabar. I know I was spied on from the laptop in my room during my recuperation.)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/10/obama-pressured-explain-nsa-surveillance
By Ben Edokpayi ©
Oh the rhythmic sounds of the city that rouses you up
at the break of dawn and stirs you from slumber at night.
From area Vigilantes with clockwork patrol reminders birds squealing ceaselessly from treetops to dogs barking at everything that moves and imaginary neurotic sounds,
and the hum-drum clickety-clacks and high-pitched howls heralding the passage of itinerant tailors and scrap-metal scavengers, along with food and newspaper vendors up and down the boulevard.
On the hallowed grounds of a neighborhood compound labeled a Holy ground by the Nigeria Police Force Aideyan Station, the
return of a cagey bogeyman at odd hours of the night
is broadcast by the rattling of a metal gate, as well as his
dingdong chime of Cece Winan’s “Mercy Said No” returning to his other half Maria on the floor. And the occasional loud thud o’er a deified metal roof of cocoNuts.
In April Our Omnipotent, Omniscient God finally said Udoh No More, it is time to rest from your tortured and careless life of sleeping with sleazy women. You and the others were warned with pictures falling off the wall and doors automatically locking the miscreants out that the orchestrated desecration was simply unconscionable and a political anomaly code named Operation Crowd tangle by Barry sans Joe Biden.
Then how do you fathom another relative who stumbles out of the bathroom naked and has a penchant for moving things around the house without my permission, including a table with a hole in 2014 we know was sky cammed and transferred you wonder after a drive through the Agbado Market on Akpakpava where disabled brother died from an epileptic seizure at his store in 2020.
You wonder if the bogeyman Udoh was on a teleguided mission with a penchant for being attired in FUBU tops Or if he was just a planted gangsters whose naked outdoors bath image became graphically merged with my innocent brother Andrew? Well whatever his mission was- may he rest in the bosom of the Lord.
Then the one that is worrisome; the staccato gunshots at night
and sometimes at high noon, that tell of a city in turmoil,
followed by the occasional siren from patrol cars that reminds
that there is at least some order amid the city’s byzantine chaos.
Out of this cacophony you hear the pleasant
banter and laughter of children as they make their way to school.
And how you long for an era gone by when a city’s
innocence and sense of decency was as resplendent as that of a child, rekindled by the most heartwarming scene between a Christian and Moslem family after the eyesore of a skimpily dressed woman with all hanging out. The scene? A Christian store owner whose daily routine includes a welcome home conversation and embrace for Nadia and Rashida children whose parents are Malian refugees in Nigeria and graciously accommodated at the Church where late Kenneth Ima was the pastor.
Oh, the tell-tale sounds of a city, somewhere in the heart of Nigeria.
Inspired by Cyprian Ekwensi, Nigeria’s most prolific novelist autographed one of his books for me during the 1982 edition of the International Literature Conference at the University of Calabar. Among Ekwensi’s works are, Iska, The Red Flag, Restless City and Christmas Gold, King for Ever!, Divided We Stand, Survive the Peace, Lokotown and Other Stories, Masquerade Time, Jagua Nana, Trouble in Form Six, Juju Rock, The Passport of Mallam Ilia, Burning Grass and People of the City. Lalah, the so-called bogeyman in this poem, is my late nephew Udo and caretaker of our home, who has a penchant for returning home late at Night. My Girlfriend’s name is Rosemaria. Despicable to be brought down to his level which is why Jimmy Carter skipped Joe Biden’s inauguration.
Image of a naked man bringing out a table with a hole in it to air the house out after a spill in 2014 was that of a relative Ettekamba. https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-01-06/jimmy-rosalynn-carter-skip-biden-inauguration
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Joe Biden’s Infrastructure Bill Boosted By Dixon Family Services and Eket Projects — OUR SLOW PACE OF DEVELOPMENT DUE TO PERSECUTION OF LEADERS -NDUESE ESSIEN TELLS AKWA IBOM PEOPLE
Former Minister of Lands and Housing, Chief Nduese Essien has appealed to Akwa Ibom people to eschew their age-long practice of antagonizing and persecuting leaders in the state as the trend has retarded instead of accelerated the development of the state.
Chief Essien who spoke at the sideline of inauguration of the 23.4 km of Etinan-Eket Road by Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, however commended Governor Udom Emmanuel on his completion agenda, maintaining that but for distractions, the governor would have finished all ongoing projects before now.
Chief Essien, a former 2-term member of the House of Representatives, representing Eket federal constituency of Akwa Ibom State from 1999–2007, said that Gov. Emmanuel would have achieved far beyond expectations but for the distraction he suffered from the beginning of his tenure in 2015 through court cases, media persecution and organized blackmail.
“But for the distraction he suffered from day one through court cases up to the supreme court, media persecution, organized blackmail and even during his succession plan, the Governor would have actually delivered far beyond expectations, in terms of infrastructure development”
“I therefore call on the people of Akwa Ibom State, especially those who wish to challenge the outcome of the just concluded Gubernatorial election in the State to have a rethink, withdraw such cases and join hands with Pastor Umo Eno in moving the State forward”, Chief Essien, my Uncle, advised. He has always been an inspirational Uncle and upright Patriarch of the family right from the time he visited Delta when I was a baby in the early 60’s and Mom worked at the General Hospital in Agbor, Delta State.
The Chieftain of Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), said that the political time table for a governor is very short and does not give room to accommodate unnecessary distractions.
“Let Akwa Ibom State, for once, enjoy the luxury of a less turbulent succession for development and self sustaining growth”, he appealed.
“Even with the distraction, Governor Udom Emmanuel was able to complete almost all the projects he started. He deserves commendation because he has landed well”, Essien said.
He called on the incoming governor, Pastor Umo Eno to embark on strict continuity of projects started by his predecessors, for rapid transformation of the State and for the people to give him maximum assistance.
©The Sun
Infrastructure Image Crisis! DFS Seeks Infrastructure funds for it’s operational base from the American Rescue Plan Funds, and an important encounter at Kaiser Emergency Entrance with Warren Salmons a former Dixon City Manager
By Ben Edokpayi © (Enterprise Journalism)
https://www.whitehouse.gov/american-rescue-plan/
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