CSO demands probe of Akwa Ibom state-owned hotel management 

A Civil Society Organisation, CSO, Center for Human Rights and Accountability Network (CHRAN) has called for contiguous probe of the Akwa Ibom State government’s Ibom Hotel and Golf Resort, to ascertain however the installation has been managed successful the past 19 years.

The authorities government, successful a nationalist announcement announced an interim closure of the Ibom Icon by August 22, 2026, to let for the completion of ongoing renovation works and the handover of its absorption to a backstage hospitality firm.

However, CHRAN successful a connection signed by its Director, Otuekong Franklyn Isong and the Secretary, Research & Documentation, Comrade Etimbuk Ekpenyong, successful Uyo connected Wednesday, said the authorities government’s thrust to reposition the edifice would beryllium incomplete without a fiscal probe.

The CSO besides expressed interest that aft successive changes successful absorption and marque identity, the Hotel has consistently failed to unrecorded up to its imaginable arsenic 1 of the state’s flagship tourism assets, noting, “that Pastor Umo Eno, Governor of Akwa Ibom State himself person acknowledged successful a nationalist relation that the installation has repeatedly operated astatine a loss.” 

The connection work successful parts, “CHRAN, therefore, calls connected the authorities of Akwa Ibom State to committee an autarkic fi...