Akwa Ibom YPP Senatorial aspirant promises inclution of Oron in oil producing communities
The senatorial candidate of the Young Progressives Party(YPP) for Eket Senatorial District in Akwa Ibom State, Akparawa Ephraim Akparawa Inyangeyen has promised to critically engage stakeholders on the lingering controversy over the oil-producing area status of Oron local government area.
The aim, according to the senate hopeful is to put a final seal on subsisting arguments on the matter as well as ensure that Oro people are not directly or indirectly denied their dues and entitlements from the rich natural resources in their domain. Mr. Inyangeyen, a front-line contender and one of the leading lights of the YPP in Akwa Ibom made the commitment Tuesday while on a live interview on Heritage FM Radio, Eket.
Acknowledging and commending Oro elites and front liners for their advocacies, diplomatic effort, and relentless commitment towards settling the impasse, Inyangeyen said it would be an act of injustice, criminal marginalization, and daylight robbery to deny Oron her rightful share of patrimony and national wealth on the grounds of politics instead of inclusion to benefit from the recently passed Petroleum Industry Act(PIA).
And dwelling on the roadmap to accomplishing this, Inyangeyen promised to run a participatory representation model through regular consultations with stakeholders and town hall meetings as well as maintaining pragmatic synergy with other lawmakers from the senatorial district.
He said: “The people of Oro Nation are complaining that they produce oil but they have been excluded from the status of the oil-producing communities. Once I am elected senator, I will organize a town hall meeting to address this marginalization once and for all”
He further observed that burning and populist agitation like this can only be brought to the front burner of national and subnational discourses with the kind of vibrancy, quality, and result-oriented representation he promise the people of Eket senatorial district if elected into the 10th National Assembly.
In a related argument, the senate hopeful described it as a betrayal of public trust and incompetence if a representative who was given the mandate to represent the senatorial district only went there to serve his or her personal interest instead of the people who elected him.
Doubling down on his commitment to making a difference, Ephraim Inyangeyen said with the abilities God has given him, his era in the national assembly will be a watershed in the definition and perception of representation from Eket Senatorial District.
Thanking the present members of the National Assembly and President Muhammadu Buhari for the New Electoral Act and associated technological innovations, he urged the electorate to take full advantage of the provisions than sell their destinies to money-bag politicians or mediocre whose sole aim is seeking to serve their selfish interest.
With Oron local government area said to be one of the richest marine zones in the country, host to indigenous and foreign oil companies, and the ancestral capital to four other local government areas that combined to make Oro Nation an oil belt, observers wonder why the oil status of Oron still remains in dispute.
Article was written by the Media Department of Redemption Mission Campaign Organization
