Baskadia

I have to commend Otuekong Orok Otu Duke for his dogged and no nonsense leadership, which he handled and handled his office as the representative of Cross River State in the NDDC since his assumption of office in November 2023.

He has demonstrated true leadership by exerting pressure on the powers thar be in the NDDC to stop treating Cross River State as a nobody but as an equal partner and stakeholders in the NDDC which should enjoy all the rights and privilges acruing to other partners in the Niger Delta region.

For the first time since 2000 ,through the instrumentality of Rt. Honourable Otu, the NDDC, have graciously given the sum of #100 million as Christmas palliative to the youth and women of Cross River State.

This is an acknowledgement of the principle of equalty inherent in the enacting statute, creating NDDC, but which successive administrations in NDDC have mischievously misinterpreted and institutionalized a regime of targeted discrimination against Cross River State in the politcis of who get what when and how in NDDC.

In Proverbs 29: 2 of the Holy Bible , King Solomon, wrote to his son as a future king of Israel apt observation and rule about the political policy when good people of any nation assume the mantle of leadership ,the people wouid rejoice.

Kudos to Rt Hon Orok Otu Duke.

However, who is keeping the palliative of #100 millon given to the women and young people of Cross River State by NDDC?. We can only have One Representative for Cross River State remember.

@ Okoi Obono-Obla

Published by: Ettah Emmanuel O