The Governor of Akwa Ibom state Pastor Umo Bassey Eno, has approved the appointments of 368 One-Per-Ward Personal Assistants.
Governor Eno made this known when he was addressing his Exco members, Political Stakeholders, top government functionaries, and a cross-section of the people of the State during October edition of the Monthly Covenant Service held at the Banquet Hall, Government House, Uyo.
Assuring that more opportunities are available for deserving members to contribute their quota towards the realization of the A.R.I.S.E. Agenda blueprint and overall success of the administration, the Governor appealed to faithful of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, who were unable to make the list of appointees to remain calm and committed to the party.
He explained that the appointments were the first in the series of his determined efforts at ensuring an all-embracing government as promised to the people during his electioneering campaign.
While he mentioned the 4000 appointments across all units for the Neighborhood City Watch Programme as well as the 40 appointments for the Songhai Model Farm Programme as pending opportunities to accommodate indigenes of the State, Eno said he will be holding our stakeholders’ meeting with each local government bringing 20 persons.
“Why are we doing this?” According to him, “It’s just to be able to share what we plan to do in each LGA in three months.”
He continued. “So we want to throw it open for you to go back home, think, and within the week tell us the real need to enable us to look at them, be it school, hospital, water, or a market project, but it must be a rural development project.”
As he congratulated Akwa Ibom people on the 63rd Independence anniversary of Nigeria and prayed for wisdom upon the leaders to make Nigeria better, Eno said “Nigeria is 63 years since independence, and I trust God that the older we grow, the better we’ll get.”
Having hope that the days ahead will be good for us, the governor noted that the Bible enjoins us to pray for those in authority.
“Let’s pray for the President, let’s pray for our State and the Governor, for wisdom because wisdom is needed to navigate a lot of things, and it is the principal thing.”
“I want to thank all of you for coming and wish you a happy Independence celebration,” he remarked.
“Life is a journey and at various points of the journey, storms arise in forms of troubles, disturbances, agitations, and invasion of our peaceful atmosphere,” State Chairman, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Bishop Christian Nyong, preached.
Tagged “Peace Be Still,” Bishop Nyong culled from Mark 4:37-39, said that every human is prone to, those obstacles irrespective of status or level of attainments.
Truth Live News reports that the Cleric noted that no trouble of life is insurmountable to God’s people, adding that God has endowed men with the power to speak as Jesus did to the wind and cause peace to swallow up turbulent situation.
He used the occasion to admonish the congregants to believe in God and activate the power of God in them in the face of afflictions.