Nka Ima Ndito Nsit Atai, North America, Inc.

Posted By webguru on November 16, 2009

Culled from: News Front Online of 11 September 2009

The name, Ibanga Sunday Akpan is synonymous with development, transformation and effective leadership. According to the word of Thomas Jefferson which says that “the care of human life and happiness and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government”.

This is true of Prince Ibanga Akpan in the way he distributes amenities across the length and breadth of Nsit Atai local government area just to ensure that he puts smiles on the faces of the people. Though not a populist leader, he endeavours to ensure that the confidence reposed on him by the people of the area is not trampled upon the feet but shows in words and action.

His emergence, which came through the popular consensus pattern, people thought it would be “business as usual” where the head of Executive would “corner” and make some whooping returns to his principal, thereby living the area in a state of total neglect and abandonment. This has been proved wrong by a silent achiever who leads the local government diligently, upholds due process tenaciously and a very high moral standard in dishing out council funds for any contract, project or program of his government contrary to the popular belief and assertion of the people.

Prince Akpan who is seen in a bad light by his “opponent” probably because of his moral discipline by refusing to dance to the tune of others, rather channels the council funds into useful, productive and people oriented programs. It is on record and outstandingly seen that within one year in office, the Prince Ibanga Akpan-led administration has witnessed unprecedented landmark achievements as well as some fervent steams of developmental programs that affect and have bearings on human, infrastructure and governance in general.

Suffice it to say that legislature as an arm of government whether local, state or federal government plays a complementary role to the success of any government, though primarily to make laws for the good of the area, this cannot be done in an unconducive environment. The Prince Ibanga Akpan-led government has within the period in view, built, equipped and furnished ultra-modern legislative chambers of the local government.

Disturbed by untold sufferings and deep seated pains over the years among traders within the local government, Prince Akpan, moved by passion, chose as his first phase to construct an ultra-modern market with complete facilities including standard toilet WC system at Ikot Ekpot with an aim of touching the lives of traders right there inside the market. Prince Akpan was not nerve about the feelings of staffers of the council secretariat on assumption of office, as he met the Nsit Atai council secretariat in a deplorable and pathetic condition that resembles a deserted and abandoned environment. In a bid to ensure a good working environment for staff of the council, the council Boss sunk in bore hole in the secretariat, lit the council area with constant power.

Worried by perennial water problem, the chairman who vowed to provide portable water in all the wards across the local government area has at the period in review sunk in boreholes in nine wards including a borehole at the palace of the Paramount Ruler while plans for the remaining wards are underway.

In a bid to key into the seven point agenda of president Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, the free and compulsory education and free medical services of the Akwa Ibom State Government led by Chief Godswill Akpabio, Prince Akpan is embarking on the construction of a Medical Centre with complete facilities in completion located at Ikot Uyoe.

In order to unite the entire people of the local government for a common purpose, the Prince Akpan-led administration built civic center with over 500 sitting capacity fully air-conditioned, bullet-proof doors, borehole water and provide it with constant power supply.

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