Akwa Ibom Community Wants Court Rulings On Stubbs Creek Owners Implemented

The Ekid-speaking radical of Akwa Ibom State person again asked Governor Umo Eno to instrumentality tribunal rulings affirming their ownership of the Stubbs Creek Forest alternatively than rise a caller committee to adjudicate connected the substance with their Ibeno neighbours.

The community’s presumption is contained successful a communiqué issued astatine the extremity of their consultative gathering held astatine Atan and astatine the Palace of the Paramount Ruler of Eket, which was made disposable to journalists yesterday successful Abuja.

The communiqué was jointly signed by the Paramount Ruler, Obong E.C.D.Abia, the president-general of Ekid Peoples Union, Dr. Sam Udonsak, the union’s nationalist secretary, Barr. Bassey Dan-Abia and different cardinal stakeholders of Ekid nationality.

They insisted that the courts had since resolved the onshore substance and that the rulings were unambiguous, truthful the authorities authorities should comply with the verdicts.

At the expanded stakeholders’ meeting, the radical rejected the governor’s projected committee connected Stubbs Creek Forest, describing it arsenic unnecessary and suspicious. They requested the contiguous implementation of erstwhile tribunal rulings.

The communiqué work successful part: “Apart from the suspicious composition, the stakeholders recovered the committee to beryllium spurious and unnecessary successful presumption of the galore tribunal judgments spanning implicit a century, arsenic good arsenic the statutes of the legislature which the authorities has refused to implement.

“The stakeholders person not recovered immoderate morganatic ground for mounting up a caller committee to reappraisal the tribunal judgments, including those of the Privy Council successful London of 1916–1918. They person not recovered immoderate explicable crushed to reappraisal the statutes of the legislature connected this matter.

“The stakeholders judge that the projected committee is an avenue to surreptitiously screen the amerciable onshore deals successful the Stubbs Creek and perchance petition much concessions of onshore to the Ibeno people.

“We privation to marque it abundantly wide that the Ekid radical volition not marque immoderate much concessions to Ibeno successful the Stubbs Creek Forest, arsenic we person already conceded truthful overmuch since their accomplishment connected the Qua Iboe River estuary.”