BEING AN OPEN LETTER TO MR AMIENGHEME ANDREW, AKWA IBOM STATE COMMISSIONER OF POLICE BY THE MANDATE EYES
We in the Mandate Eyes, a socio political non governmental organization, hereby request the arrest of Chief Nkpkubre Nkpubre, a former managing director of Niger Dock and a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress for demeaning, libelous, seditious and cataclysmic comments credited to him about the proposed Ibom Deep Seaport Project.
Mr Commissioner of Police, it can be recollected that in December last year, the Federal Executive Council granted full approvals to a Deep Seaport project in Akwa Ibom State to be located Unyenge, Mbo local government area of the state. This was achieved through the personality asset, dogged and sacrificial commitment invested into the process by the Mr Udom Emmanuel, who on the inception of his stewardship as Governor of Akwa Ibom enunciated industrialization as a cardinal point of his administration.
Following this historic approval that put an end to the decades of agitations and struggle for a deep seaport by successive administrations in the state, Chief Nkpubre Nkpubre and his gang of tribal war mongers in their atavistic nature have resorted to impugning the reputation of the Governor and his family through libelous, malicious and inflamatory comments and publications on the social media, electronic media and in the pages of newspapers. This is in contravention of Section 373 of the Criminal Code which rebukes injuring the reputation of any person by exposing him to hatred, contempt or ridicule, or likely to damage any person in his profession or trade by injury to his reputation. It is is also an action that can stir a needless crises by pitching the Oro people in a duel against the Ibibio’s, the owners of the Governor.
Mr Commissioner, Chief Nkpubre’s asinine demeanor as typified in his numerous mendacity and preponderance for instability, are capable of stirring hate, rebellion and bad faith against Mr Udom Emmanuel who means well for Oro nation and the entire state. Nkpubre’s action is therefore criminal and should be subjected to investigations by the police. Nkpubre has to tell the world whose interest he is serving, his motivations and expected outcome.
To further buttress our point, Chief Nkpubre did not end his tirade of attacks at the state chief executive, but extended it to the Governor’s late father and other members of the first family. This, again, is antithetical to the same section of the criminal code which captures further that “ It is immaterial whether at the time of the publication of the defamatory matter, the person concerning whom such matter is published is living or dead”.
Sir, the totality of these could resurrect painful memories of the dead and creating a dysfunctional psychological effect on the Governor and his family. It reveals further, the the psychopathic and narcissistic nature of of Nkpubre, who cares more about his ego, but less about others.
It is worthy of note sir, that the said relocation of the seaport from Oron Nation is false and baseless, as the current proposed location of Unyenge, is still in Mbo local government area of Oron Nation. Also, their successive petitions and litigations have shown that these self seeking folks from Oron Nation have no basis for their fight against the collective interest of the state. The last petition they wrote against the project, was sent to Bollore Transport Logistics of France, forcing the investors to pull out of the deal.
On this note, sir, we in the Mandate Eyes, hereby call for the arrest of Chief Nkpubre, before the security infractions further divide the state and or snowball into open hostilities in a state that is reputed as one of the most peaceful in Nigeria.
The arrest and interrogation of Chief Nkpubre will put paid to some of the questions raised here, and ultimately halt the escalation of the ill -conceived and hate- induced campaign of calumny against the person of the Governor and the institution he represents. It will serve as deterrent to many of Nkpubre’s recruits and lieutenants who have found a new venture in instituting venoms against other sections of the Akwa Ibom State public.
Signed
Dr. Uwemedimoh Umanah
Director of Public and Strategic Communications
28/09/21
