Date Published: 07/07/09

The Editor,

Akwa Ibom and the "Failed State" tag

Whoever this Peter Udiong, writing on Akwa Ibom as a failed State is, it was high time he stopped touching wrongly on the sensibility of Akwa Ibom indigenes. I am sure that if he should make himself openly known anywhere Akwa Ibom persons are gathered, he probably would be skinned alive. Is he really an Akwa Ibom person? If his attempt was to cheaply score a good rating for the present governor, he missed doing a good job.

Please I wish to appeal to writers on ‘Akwa Ibom’ to always be sincere and not damage us further.  We are now liberated from what people tagged us in the past - those menial jobber houseboys, cooks, drivers etc. We were in this wrong closet for too long and having now been properly discovered, no man should, in playing politics, any longer drag us back.

Michael Okon Uwem. Atabong Road. Eket. Akwa Ibom State