Sunday 27 January 2013

High Crime Rate Alert; In Obot Akara Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.

It would be unrighteous for any one to say that the Crime rate in Obot Akara LGA. Of Akwa Ibom State is below 95%, recently I travel with a friend to a particular Village in Obot Akara, but could not spend one night there because I was advice by the persons I when to visit not to spend a night, because they fear what the night will bring, especially when I drive in with a car, my friend who was a total stranger was surprise that there is a place like that still in Nigeria, according to one elderly man, he told us that you can be beaten very badly for having N10,000 cash at home, he added that this crime constantly repeat itself for over 3years and the sad thing is, the State Government has totally ignore the area where the crime is so intense, In a particular village called Ubon Akwa that is surrounded by many other villages; eg. Ibiakpan, Okop, Abiakpo, Ikot Inemme etc. but shared the same boundary with a part of Abia State, the Crime rate in the Village is so intense that the villagers now barricade their doors with steel irons, but still they are not safe, they now have to forcibly go to bed before 8pm every day, the most worrisome part is that this people has develop themselves into kidnapping any old man or woman they notice that the son or daughter staying outside the village can at least sent N5,000 in a month for the up keep of the old man/woman and will request for such a ransom that the child may not be able to take care of in years. People are leaving in fear, parents warn their children not to visit for the fear of their life, and you can hear slow whispering at night because families are awake for the fear of their life.
All this is happening in one Local Government Area, and the Government can not do anything about it, I know they may want to ask where do we start? Why because there is not one good route that past through the above villages, the government once try to create a good road there but fail badly under the leadership of the former Local Government Chairman who is believed to must have embezzled the fund allocated for the project, must more than millions of people leaving in that LGA. suffer intensely because of one man?
I am therefore pleading with the State Government, a specially the great governor; His Excellency Governor Godswill Akpabio to come to the rescue of the people leaving in Obot Akara LGA, people are dying and many has been subjected to suffering.
Let it not be that democracy in Nigeria today has turn the inverse of what rational human person thought it was, because it would be sad to say that some rapacious leaders have decided to subject the masses to hard suffering where people are been used as political manure and even our top politicians have forgotten that their lackadaisical attitude may lead to dichotomy and perplexity.

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