13/10/2026
Akparawa Promise Asikpo, Esq. ✍️
AKWA IBOM PUBLIC ADVISORY
HISTORY, JUSTICE, AND THE DEFENCE OF AKWA IBOM'S TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY
The speech delivered by the revered Akwa Ibom Elder Statesman, Rt. Hon. Chief Nduese Essien, the Attah of Eket, at the installation of the Oku Ibom Ibibio, His Eminence Ntenyin (Dr.) Solomon Etuk, CFR (Yak itong uwem asong Ntenyen ke nsinsi!), as the 4th Grand Patron of Mboho Mkparawa Ibibio in Uyo on 4 August 2025, was a principled, lucid, and historically grounded intervention.
His address serves as a timely reminder that a people who neglect their history imperil their future. By presenting historical facts with clarity and conviction, the Elder Statesman has once again awakened the consciousness of the Ibibio Nation and the people of Akwa Ibom State to their enduring duty of preserving their heritage, safeguarding their ancestral homeland, protecting their historic Atlantic coastline, maritime heritage, and territorial lands, and upholding justice through lawful and democratic means. History, law, and equity must never be subordinated to expediency, political convenience, or sectional interests.
The Akwa Ibom State Police Command Uyo is respectfully encouraged to take due cognisance of the historical perspectives articulated in the address and their implications for public order and security. Such understanding will strengthen community policing, enhance the management of public-order concerns, and reinforce the Command's constitutional mandate to preserve law and order, protect lives and property, maintain public confidence, and promote the peace and stability indispensable to sustainable socio-economic development.
The Akwa Ibom State Government is respectfully enjoined to continue implementing the Akwa Ibom State Map Establishment Law, 2023, with fairness, resolve, impartiality, and fidelity to the rule of law, while safeguarding the State's territorial integrity and lawful entitlements. In the discharge of this responsibility, the Government must serve all Akwa Ibom people across the thirty-one Local Government Areas with justice, equity, good faith, and unwavering commitment to the common good, placing the collective interest, unity, and heritage of the State above sectional, partisan, or political considerations.
The preservation of Akwa Ibom's historical identity, territorial integrity, and lawful rights is a collective responsibility resting upon government, traditional institutions, civil society, and the citizenry alike. The pursuit of justice, truth, peace, and lawful order remains the surest foundation for enduring unity, prosperity, and intergenerational progress.
May our commitment to unity, peace, justice, progress, and the lawful defence of our shared Akwa Ibom heritage remain steadfast and enduring for the benefit of present and future generations.
Yak ado ntoro!
Adue akpe!
Akwa Ibom isongo!
Akparawa Promise Asikpo, Esq.
(Legal Adviser, Police Community Relations Committee, Area A Command, Lagos: 2019 - 2023)
10 October 2026
Copied to:
1. Akwa Ibom State Police Command Uyo
2. Akwa Ibom State Government
3. His Eminence, Oku Ibom Ibibio - Supreme Traditional Ruler and Patriarch of the Ibibio Nation, and President General of the Akwa Ibom State Supreme Council of Traditional Rulers
(Through His Eminence's Emissary: Mkpisong Dr. Samuel Udonsak - Team Udonsak)