By Asuquo Edem
Going by historical and present day threats by the people of Eket claiming ownership of Ikot Nsung, Akpa Urua Ikot all in Okorokuku, indigenes of Ibeno under the auspices of the joint council of Mkpono Nnitor Ibeno and Ulok Ulok people's Assembly have sent strong warning to Let to desist fortherwith such schemes as they will stop at nothing in protecting what rightfully belongs to them.
Presenting a rejoinder yesterday at Ukpenekang Youth Council Hall over a press conference by Itid Afigh Ekid Union the Joint Council Chairman Elder Chief Ikpedem Ekong and the Joint Council Secretary Pastor Tom Samuel Afia said that they will not follow the inglorious path of beating of war drums with the Ekwids adding that "we want the world to know that it is the people of Ekid who have consistently boasted of their possession of a war chest and being the wild Ibibios, as they have also recently claimed, would not hesitate to unleash their wild, animalistic and intractable war chest on Ibeno".
While dispelling claims by Ekid that part of the Stubb's Creek Forest is in Ine Akpautong, they stated that the Ekwids have only come to lay their dirty linen in public as there is no place known as One Akpautong either as a village in Ekid Landor as a whole or on Esit Eket local government area in particular. "It is a truism that the Paramount Ruler of Esit Eket, Edidem Ubong Peter Assam, has no village nor has he ever held a council meeting at the supposed village".
"The Ekid people have a way of always attempting to rename Ibeno villages or even Ibeno lands with funny nomenclatures or twisting those names in their dialect. For instance, very recently they have attempted to rename Ikot Nsung as Iko Nsung but not one Ekid man alive can tell the origin of that name or how that place came to be known as Ikot Nsung. Whereas Ibeno does not only know the history but the creek passing through that place has been called Akpa Using by Ibeno from antiguty".
The also alleged that Ekets have been citing phantom cases upon cases but have never produced the ratios of those cases and what the courts actually said. "In their usual desperation we know that there in nothing they cannot tweak to favor but when one considers the substance, it would be far from what they made it to represent".
"To this end, we wish to sound a note of warning that no part of Ibeno lamd belongs to Eket,....BUA refinery is to be located in Ibeno... Ibeno will not tolerate any trespass to it's land... Ibeno will defend BUA activities, it's personnel not local and expatriates.. Ibeno will never take up arms against Eket but we will not fold our arms and watch the activities of miscreants in our land...if one leaf is taken from Ibeno into Eket, we will enter and collect twelve leaves...we will equally not permit one BUA personnel to be hurt or killed by Eket in the course of carrying out their legitimate construction work on Ibeno, which will be a blessing to Akwa Ibom State and Nigeria as a whole".
The Joint Council Chairman and Secretary stars that the real problem of the Ekid people is the fear of the unknown because they have nothing to offer in this great State other than making people believe who and what they are not. "But we also know that there is no developmental strides carries out anywhere in the State that will not have a constructive and positive impact on all members of the State. The skittish and erratic behavior of the people of Ekid cannot therefore be explained except that they have considered themselves the untouchables, or that they have the exclusive right to fermenting trouble. That will not continue to be the case going forward. Let this be a warning".
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