Stubb Creek Crisis: CSO dismisses alleged tension stoking in Akwa Ibom

Civil Society Organisation successful Akwa Ibom State, Open Forum has denied the allegation by the caput of Ibeno Clan Council, Chief Udofia Okon Udofia that its advocacy and positions implicit the disputed Forest Reserve successful the State is fueling tension.

Ibeno Council of Elders done the caput expressed reservations implicit Open Forum’s caller advocacies for the solution of the perennial situation implicit Stubb Creeks.

The elders queried the Organisation’s ineligible presumption to interfere successful the matter, alleging that the Open Forum is secretly moving for the opposing communities of Ekid.

Ibeno Stakeholders faulted Okono’s entreaty to the authorities authorities to retreat its presumption connected the disputed reserve, the continued detention of Princess Udoito, and the alignment of the Lagos -Calabar Coastal Highway done the area.

However, Founder of Open Forum, Mathew Kofi Okono, successful a connection successful Uyo connected Wednesday said the allegation of fueling hostility was unfounded, malicious and unsubstantiated.

Okono described arsenic ironical, Ibeno’s statements saying that they are adjacent the imaginable beneficiaries of the advocacy. He said it was connected grounds however the organisation had earlier pressed connected the Akwa Ibom State authorities to make the marginalized lipid affluent communities of Ibeno and the urgent telephone it raised connected the request to found the Oil and Gas Producing Community Development Commission to guarantee they person sp...