By Ikpen Ilefa
On the faces of the people, we smell poverty, monumental nullity, and backwardness. The people are hungry and angry why? Because the one we voted for have turned against our collective understanding and sympathy by brazenly and wantonly keeping that which is meant for public consumption for just the self.
Cross River North, prides as the bride of Cross River State, yet the people are hungry, profoundly impoverished and made worthless and poverty stricken. The idea of building the youths into being productive citizens by way of entrepreneural trainings and skill acquisitions has been carried away with car empowerment, tricycle empowerment, Motorcycle empowerment and at best, Garri engine or 20,000 empowerment.
Our roads are wearing the worst look in the history of Cross River State, our schools and hospitals, I'll equipped, our markets, scattered to pieces with no building to prevent buyers and sellers from heavy or even light torrential rainfall.
Social media is constantly awash with projects that has no physical presence, bills and motions that has no bearing on the people, and assistance that are meant to massage our huge political ergo.
After a self introspection, I have carefully outlined various failures that is keeping Cross River North backward.
1. CHRONIC POVERTY : It has been observed that our people are suffering heavily because of hunger, our lands are no longer safe, there is serious rural migration to Calabar in the name of appointment, our females are almost becoming prostitutes and our males hoodlums, all in the quest to survive.It is so sad that, amidst this ugly circumstance,20,000 after three years to some selected few, is the best alternative to curb hunger in northern Cross River
2. JOBLESSNESS: Thousands of youths are daily graduating from secondary and tertiary institutions, only to compound the already saturated labour market. While we understand that some persons are unemployable, and should be trained on basic skills, we believe that, the employable could be assisted to create value, by assisting their ideas and entrepreneural mindset. What we have today, is the constant turn down of job recommendations, job creation, proposals for business plan and the sort for family and loyalist gains. It is so sad that amidst this ugly circumstance, a car, a bike or kekenapep empowerment to a selected few after three years and counting is the best alternative to curb Joblessness in northern Cross River.
ELECTRICITY : Adequate supply of electricity is a sine qua non to great industrial growth. Our young ones who have decided to be employers of labour by creating their own businesses like computer centers, printing press, barbing saloon, hair dressing saloons, viewing centers and the sort, needs adequate power supply. The case in Obanliku is no better than the one in Obudu, or Bekwarra, the worst is Ogoja. Yala enjoys from the benevolence of Abakiliki. Yet we have leaders from these regions, who at the mention of the word "transformer" or the attempt to fix the power grid at Okuku road, everything will be fixed. What is the job of our Senator who represents these regions or our Power Commissioner whose job, cuts across the entire state, with Northern Cross River inclusive. It is so sad that, amidst this ugly circumstance, a generator to a selected few after three years, is the best alternative to curb electricity problem in northern Cross River.
Obviously our problems are too many to be enumarated here, it cuts from security to endemic corupption and greed. It only leaves us to remember that northern Cross River is a rapped virgin. A virgin blessed both in form and in discretion. Blessed in size and wealth. Blessed in looks and in thoughts. She has accumulated resources peculiar to princesses and queens, her gait and configurations rattles, dazzles and baffles all those that come her way; her movement? calculated, computed and configured; her steps? Resolves, absolves and dissolves into crystal lites, diamond, good soil that produces cassava, yams, groundnut, beneseed, rice and even palm oil.
All her prayers? answered. She became popular and populous, she became enchanting, fascinating and charming. But behold, this feminine rapist of democracy, assassin of goodwill, world class frauder and bogus - pocus suddenly emerged. To the virgin She grabbed. To the virgin she violently rapped and repeatedly, no guilt, no thoughtfulness and compassion. It is so sad that, after this vehement rape of three years and counting, the best alternative to say sorry is a day selected by power makers to change this rapist, an eve to our collective jubilation of the end of backwardness. Yet even with this, a few supports this hatchet leadership so that their music may remain sung on the lips of gullible ones. Too sad! Very sad!!
From the foregoing, we could be tempted to assume that Cross River Northern Senatorial District is a failed district as it relates to the senate, and needs urgent solution as it is heading towards unavoidable disaster. It is almost like a giant airplane whose double engine automatically caught fire in mid heavens after briefly experiencing a turbulent storm and so is heading for major disaster with its 298 passengers.
How can we imagine a boy who was born fifty years ago with a silver spoon and still refusing to be called a man. Instead of being called a family man with wife and children, he is still tied to the apron strings of the mother as he is always seen crawling and creeping on the ground naked, sweating and bathing with sand.
Here is a giant that has been so blessed, yet remain wretched, hungry and angry as a result of repeated and vicious rape on her by her leaders. The market women needs good road to transport their products, the okade riders for whom our leaders have made them so and even those we give cars, need good roads to ply on. Our youths need mouth watering jobs like our children, they too, desire to be bankers, Federal civil servants, to be contractors, to be officers of the Nigerian Army, Custom, Prisons, Police, Immigration, Civil Defence and Road Safety. They need meaningful empowerment that will last for a life time. Our farmers need grands, our students need yearly bursary, they need daily assistance, our workers need preferential treatment, our villages need light, there need water, there need healthcare and above all the people of northern Cross River State needs a leader.
Who will take this great and colossally blessed district to its eldorado? The answer is God, through Jude Ogbeche Ngaji.
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