The Traditional Rulers Council of Ukana West have said plans are on the way to immortalise their noble son, Barr. Prince Ukpong Akpabio .
Disclosing the plan, the clan head of Ukana West, Akuku Sylvester Udo Ekanem said that the Immortalization plan would be a fulfillment of the covenant made by the TRC to immortalise anybody that will spearhead development in the permanent site of the TRC, adding that it was just a coincidence that the Honourable Commissioner for Trade, Investment and Industry became the first to spearhead development in the permanent site of the TRC.
Pointing at a stone in the site, Akuku Ekanem disclosed that the stone on that site was planted by all members of the TRC as a point of remembrance of their covenant to immortalise whoever will pioneer development in their new site.
"This stone was laid as a point of remembrance of the covenant we made as a council that whosoever will be the first to open up development in this site and location, that he will be immortalised," Akuku Ekanem noted.
At the groundbreaking ceremony and foundation laying of Ukana West Council Hall, speaker ofter speakers took turns to express how a council hall and a Secretariat had been the yearnings of the people of Ukana West, pouring encomiun on the Commissioner for Trade, Investment and Industry who has undertaken the burden and responsibility of building a council hall and a Secretariat for Ukana West clan.
While responding, the Commissioner of Trade, Investment and Industry said he was embarrassed by the fact that the City of Kings as Ukana West didn't have a roof that belongs to the clan.
"Ukana people have had everything. They've had many Commissioners, a Governor, Senators, Minister but didn't have a council hall. Today, I'm very excited that our collective resolved has made it possible to finally have a council hall"
Barr. Prince Ukpong Akpabio said that though a member of the State Executive Council, that he prioritises Essien Udim and everything that concerns Essien Udim, promising to do more for Ukana people especially in tackling unemployment which is a major issue for Ukana young women and men.
" If you pay attention to my prioritise as Commissioner, you will realize that Essien Udim comes up first.
I was particularly embarrassed last week when I brought party officials to consult Ukana West on the upcoming elections. Because of that embarrassment, I have had to invite all Ward Chairmen of PDP in Essien Udim and a few other officials who were there to witness the embarrassing moment caused by the fact that we consulted our fathers in a borrowed facility, to witness the effort to erase that shame.
" Looking up from here,I have seen PDP SUPPORTERS and I have seen APC supporters. I have seen the neutral and undecided population and I deduce from this that this project has been considered beyond party lines. However, it is my wish that while you go to the polls on Saturday, that you will remember that it was PDP and a PDP person that gave us the reason to be all gathered here.
After elections where we would have been more mentally relaxed, we will begin to take statistics and a data base of everybody so that we will be able to identify the unemployed amongst Ukana people. If we start immediately after elections, by December we would have made good progress over unemployment in Ukana"
The Commissioner thanked the patriot who donated the land where the Secretariat is to be built, to the clan stressing that his gesture should be rated the highest contribution to the course of giving Ukana West a council hall.
Barr. Akpabio said that although he promised six hundred bags of cement, that he has added trips of sand required to complete the project. He requested that labourers and personnels needed in the project should be sourced from Ukana West as a way of patronising locals while advertising their skills.
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