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Akwa Ibom EndSARS recommendations shrouded in secrecy, leaves room for suppression – Group

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Group tasks FG on concessioning of Calabar-Itu highway

Buhari. Photo: TWITTER/NIGERIAGOVThe Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) has charged the Federal Government to include the dilapidated Calabar-Itu-Ikot Ekpene highway among federal roads the Federal Ministry of Works recently slated for concessioning. Its Chairman in Akwa Ibom State, Franklin Isong, stated this while fielding questions from journalists in Uyo yesterday, saying the call became necessary as the National Assembly had failed to make adequate budgetary provision for the highway since the contract for its reconstruction was awarded. x He said the road had been politicised and had become a death trap, wondering why federal roads in Akwa Ibom State were left in such a state of dilapidation and neglect, even as the state was contributing the highest amount to the Federation’s Account.

Akwa Ibom Seventh Assembly Too Weak for Democracy, CLO Alleges

…We are committed to our responsibilities, Assembly spokesman insists Okon Bassey in Uyo The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) in Akwa Ibom State has alleged that the seventh state House of Assembly ‘is too weak’ to be called an arm of a government in a democratic setting. The state Chairman of the CLO, Mr. Franklin Isong, made the allegation yesterday while interacting with journalists in Uyo, the state capital. Isong alleged that the Assembly lacked initiative to carry out its oversight functions, just as a member of the Assembly also anonymously side with the CLO, claiming that the state Assembly is now like one of the Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs) of the state government.

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