Akwa Ibom Mapping: We will resist every plot to cede our ancestral territory – Unyenge community fumes

Unyenge community in Mbo Local Authorities Home of Akwa Ibom Bid has threatened to withstand any strive by the narrate govt to cede any portion of her land to one other native govt condo within the ‘name of delineating narrate boundaries.’

It’s been noticed that the “Akwa Ibom Bid Design Institution Bill” passed by the Bid Home of Assembly on April, 13, 2023, but looking ahead to assent by the narrate governor, Udom Emmanuel.

The model has generated a quantity of controversies from the oil producing communities within the narrate.

Unyenge community in a reveal collectively signed by its chairman, Itama Ekpe, Secretary, Kanny Nkwobia and Spokesperson, Bassey Etim and made available to our correspondent in Uyo on Tuesday, expressed resentment over the Bill and urged the narrate govt to chorus from assenting to it for peace to reign.

The community threatened that being an integral part of Obolo Nation, it wouldn’t hesitate to denounce attempts to arrogate the ancestral land of Obolo to any community or native govt within the name of remapping.

The reveal eminent that the invoice was as soon as aimed at ceding aspects of their land to other native governments for the selfish curiosity of govt at the side of, “the Bill seeks to elongate some landlocked LGAs (Esit Eket, Eket, Onna, Mkpat Enin, and Ikot Abasi) thru the Obolo lands (Mbo, Ibeno, and Eastern Obolo) being the littoral set of the narrate, to the Atlantic Ocean.”

Whereas threatening to peep correct redress if governor Udom Emmanuel goes forward to present assent to the regulation, the folks recalled that the court docket had already given a verdict restraining the narrate govt from mapping, remapping or redrawing the map of the native governments with emphasis on the obolo land and wondered why the governor in collusion with the narrate condo of Assembly would flout the court docket expose.

In step with the reveal, “When the first try to remap or redraw the map of Akwa Ibom narrate with explicit reference to the obolo lands (Mbo, Eastern Obolo, and Ibeno) surfaced thru a motion moved by Hon. David Lawrence, a member representing Eket within the Akwa Ibom Bid Home of Assembly, the Obolo folks instituted a lawsuit straight away in opposition to the Akwa Ibom narrate govt, the Home of Assembly, and the Surveyor Fashioned of the narrate because the defendants in swimsuit no. hu/341/2021.

“They suitably defended themselves but regrettably lost out within the verdict delivered by his Lordship, Hon Justice Edet Akpan on the Akwa Ibom narrate High court docket, Uyo, on january 27, 2022.

“The defendants were restrained from mapping, remapping, or redrawing the map of the native govt areas of the narrate, with an emphasis on the obolo land.

“On the other hand, the govt.of Akwa Ibom narrate has exerted an improper impact on the rubber-mark narrate Home of Assembly and divulge extremely vires with sheer non-compliance of constitutional provisions and went forward to dawdle the awful map institution invoice even with out recourse to constitutional procedures to annex obolo lands to other LGAs to pave methodology for them, especially his LGA (Onna), to have confidence bellow rep admission to to the atlantic ocean so that you would possibly rep categorized as host communities of offshore petroleum operations and partake within the prerogatives and privileges thereto as narrate forth within the Petroleum Change Act, 2021.

“Noteworthy as we, the Obolo, are peace-loving folks, we won’t hesitate to invoke all correct tools and civil procedures to fight for the maintenance of our ancestral territory ought to aloof the govt.proceed with this unreasonable and thoughtless invoice.”