By Victor R. Etok-Akpan

Certainly, Akwa Ibom individuals are hopeful that the governor-elect, Pst. Umo Eno, (PUE), in step with his phrases, would lead an inclusive authorities and such that, it is not going to be a winner take all affair as a result of nobody might be left behind.

That is as, Akwaibomites hope that the tenure of PUE as Governor of Akwa Ibom State after he’s sworn into workplace on Might 29, 2023 might be a season of happiness for the state in gentle of his ARISE agenda for the state , to realize peace, prosperity and continuity with the strides of improvement which have come up to now to the fruit of productive livelihood for our success and due to this fact the promise of joyful days forward which is able to complement the DAKKADA mantra of Governor Udom Emmanuel administration on reorientation of the Akwa Ibom folks to consider of their skills on a can do spirit to realize greatness.

To this finish, the ARISE agenda relies on a 5 (5) level program with associated improvement elements on: Agricultural Revolution, Rural Growth, Infrastructural Upkeep/Promotion, Safety Administration and Schooling Promotion. PUE, the governor-elect considers the ARISE agenda as mainly his contract with the Akwa Ibom folks and that it’s sturdy and straightforward to digest and can impression livelihoods positively in the long term, due to this fact he burdened the necessity for a management with capability and competence to ship.

Presenting an evaluation of the ARISE agenda at an interactive city corridor assembly with members of commerce unions and curiosity teams within the state, PUE, the governor-elect promised to take the folks again to the farm citing his agricultural revolution plans. within the mentioned agenda, to follow agriculture at a sustainable, business and export stage, supported by well-managed and efficient agricultural credit score applications, to make agriculture the way in which to go, from conventional to extra fashionable agriculture, to boast of our productive output, for home and international markets. He considerably maintained that the political inclination of his administrations will propagate the areas of our comparative benefits in agricultural cultivation, to revive our agricultural enterprise in constructing our financial system.

Because of this, the governor-elect, PUE, famous the areas of our comparative benefits in agriculture contemplating the evaluation wants of the varied communities within the state on the ARISE agenda, similar to for palm merchandise, with a plan to ascertain palm oil mills within the catchment areas of the state for bundles of contemporary palm fruit, (ffb), as an funding method to encourage farmers to produce ffb to the mills in change for money, thereby forcing them to resume the yield of our pure wild palm groves and a few deserted palm plantations scattered throughout the panorama of the state for optimistic outcomes.

One other agriculturally demanding space of ​​our comparative benefit within the state for due funding is the fishing business, with plans primarily based on the evaluation wants of the ARISE agenda, to offer trawlers, fishing boats/instruments, storage services and the fishing crane business, in creating our fishing actions to requirements, that may be achieved elsewhere within the creating international locations, for better earnings and an enchancment in the usual of residing for the inhabitants.

Nonetheless, contemplating the necessity to discover the complete worth chain of agriculture in varied areas of curiosity, for our comparative benefit, together with cassava cultivation and staple meals, as famous by the governor-elect, PUE, he due to this fact views agriculture as a gold mine, which is able to create jobs as a sensible side of operating the financial system of the state and which we consider will deliver smiles by making us a profitable and joyful lot and with delight for our achievements.

When it comes to rural improvement, the ARISE agenda for the state by the governor-elect, PUE, is deliberate to deliver a few season of happiness for our rural dwellers, particularly as efforts should be focused at controlling the mentioned rising poverty and unemployment in our rural areas.

To this finish, with PUE’s tenure as governor of the state, we should witness the supply of expertise improvement applications for our teaming below employed youths, to sort out the issues of job creation as a process because the governor-elect emphasised is. a should to place them again to work. There may be additionally the prospect of introducing new Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in our rural areas, which might be adopted up with efforts to attach rural Akwaibomites by offering dependable and reasonably priced web entry to shut the digital divide and for serving to rural farmers and companies function extra effectively and break into new markets in addition to assist create and protect rural wealth as a technique to develop the financial system, which may also create the mandatory center class in society to stimulate the financial system.

To realize this goal, fashionable housing services similar to markets, colleges, well being care supply, all seasonal roads, rural electrification, leisure services and so forth are anticipated to be offered within the rural areas to result in its infrastructural and financial transformation throughout the nation. state and in the end scale back the pesky rural-urban drift that the governor-elect, PUE, had talked about throughout his campaigns on the necessity to cease rural-urban migration, noting that it’s a key part of any Govt. and acceptable, a test in opposition to the dreaded drawback of making the city poor in our cities right now.

Due to this fact, an built-in method to rural improvement will make sure the calibration of varied native communities to function sub-systems of our financial progress and improvement wheels for the prosperity of the state’s financial system as an entire, which thus gladdens our hearts. rural folks and all residents of the state on the whole and hold us joyful.

When it comes to infrastructural upkeep and progress, Akwa Ibom State is thought to be blessed with unprecedented improvement and tasks with our human endeavors on all fronts for our socio-economic well-being. These embrace the Oku Ikono flyover, the longest within the South-South area; the 21-story Dakkada Tower, the seventh tallest within the nation; one of the best community of roads within the area and to be a frontrunner in rural electrification, in addition to building of probably the most clever and smartest airport terminal within the area. Additionally it is the longest bridge constructed by any state authorities, 1.15 km hyperlink at Mbo connecting to Esit Eket. Others embrace Ibom Industrial Metropolis, Liberty oil and fuel zone, Ibom Deep Sea port, Ibom Energy Plant, the 5-star L Marriden Accommodations, various strategic manufacturing corporations similar to Syringe Manufacturing Firm, the biggest in Africa, Electrical Digital Metering Manufacturing Manufacturing facility, St. Gabriel Coconut Refinery Ltd, to call however a number of, with different quite a few industries in addition to these within the oil and fuel sector going by due course of to start out up accordingly.

In view of those excessive investments similar to infrastructural and industrial services within the state, the governor-elect, PUE, deems it advantageous to determine with the applications of his predecessors on the present stage of improvement and likewise to raise the event greater for our frequent good to fulfill our social and financial wants for developmental progress relatively than shopping for into political and private sentiments that might trigger a reversal of the positive aspects of current years.

On this regard, the governor-elect, PUE, has promised to revive and full and fee the Ibom Science Park challenge and different deserted legacy tasks so as to add to the brand new industrial infrastructure tasks to be undertaken for progress to our financial system in opposition to reckless abandon, which has price taxpayers the lack of big sums of cash.

Moreover, we will recall, relating to the safety administration part of the ARISE agenda, {that a} main cause for the choice of Pst. Umo Eno (PUE) to rule the state was borne out of our perception in his robust ethical rules, as a person of integrity and humility match for the workplace to symbolize our collective dignity, for peaceable coexistence amongst all Akwaibomites. Due to this fact, it’s identified that his coming to energy is and not using a hidden affect related to people on the sponsorship of group pursuits, which might trigger a division within the state, given its tendencies of safety breaches on society, which we had skilled with killings , kidnappings and cult wars previously.

On this be aware, whereas promising safety of life and property in his marketing campaign messages, the governor-elect, PUE, had at all times insisted that he’ll make sure that our folks proceed to reside in peace and that the sanctity of human life could be protected. by our safety administration. He frowned at leaders who he mentioned use the youth for thuggery and violence when it fits their egocentric functions. Contributing thus far, Governor Udom Emmanuel emphasised that Akwa Ibom won’t ever return to the darkish days.

The governor-elect, PUE, additionally acknowledges the truth that the state has remained peaceable because the administration of Governor Udom Emmanuel and that is identified to have contributed as an element to the essential social improvement energy of the state to make Akwa Ibom an investor’s vacation spot. For that reason, PUE has promised to additional strengthen the state’s safety structure for better efficiency and for an enabling atmosphere for the profitable implementation of his administrations ARISE Agenda and stating that Governor Udom Emmanuel doesn’t compromise on safety and that he treats safety points severely to make Akwa Ibom State safe and affluent.

Lastly, the attitude of the schooling program ARISE Agendas predicts that the governor-elect, PUE, will make schooling in step with his predecessors on formal schooling by making main and secondary schooling free and obligatory, however past that, it is going to be clear the five-point program of his ARISE agenda for agricultural revolution, rural improvement, infrastructural upkeep/development and academic progress as an entire.

Thus, on assumption of workplace as Governor of the state, PUE will hopefully undertake a radically totally different method to schooling given the necessity to emphasize talent improvement and de-emphasize the mere acquisition of certificates by offering ample coaching applications and rehabilitation of faculties to to supply human assets as a very powerful capital improvement issue, primarily based on the necessity to imbibe the essence of sensible orientation and know-how along with the information of formal schooling. Likewise, scholarship schemes for post-graduate research might be provided to the brightest college students to do good by returning providers to their fatherland.

On this course, the ARISE Agenda presents the STEAM idea of academic development, which is an acronym for science, expertise, engineering, arts and arithmetic and is taken into account related with the approaching industrialization of the state, as the muse of our academic program.

By and huge, contemplating the worth of the phrases of the governors-elect, PUE, on the unveiling of his ARISE agenda that we are going to use our useful resource to water the seeds of our collective prosperity whereas drawing our consideration to this as what the ARISE agenda is all about due to this fact our pleasure depends on PUE’s ARISE agenda in selecting up the ruins of governance within the state to implement this blueprint which he says is a contract to proceed on the trail of peace, safety and improvement and acceptable, will make and hold us joyful as now we have been having fun with because the final seven years plus. It’s on this be aware that we agree to affix PUE’s administration in ushering in a season of happiness for his tenure as governor of Akwa Ibom State and for the anticipated resounding success of his administration.

Victor R. Etok-Akpan is a Public-Affairs analyst and journalist and writes from Ikot-Abasi LGA, Akwa-Ibom State. 08065608338