By Ogenyi Ogenyi,Uyo
Governor Umo Eno of Akwa Ibom yesterday in Uyo swore into office new Commissioners and a Special Adviser with a charge to produce results and not report efforts.
He has also said he would constitute a monitoring and implementation committee for his Arise Agenda, meant to serve as a roadmap for his administration’s policies and programmes.
The governor who implored them to use the Arise Agenda Roadmap as a guide in the execution of their responsibilities also said he returned the team used by his predecessor because,”they are tested hands with the right experience and understand the System” and because,”you do not abandon your foot soldiers shortly after a successful execution of a major victory.”
To the new appointees,he said, “you may be old blood, but what you have now, is a new Template of Execution and Implementation and you are expected to wholly execute all that is within your areas of responsibility as outlined in the Roadmap.
“The timelines and the deliverables are well spelt-out. You were brought back to ensure and facilitate continuity and you must justify this trust we have invested in you.
“My political father used to say something very fundamentally apt, which I want to repeat here: Please do not come to me, to report efforts, bring me results.”
“Akwa Ibom people want results; results in ensuring food security through Agricultural revolution we have promised to ignite. Akwa Ibom people are waiting for us to connect the dots in the rural areas, by bringing massive development in those areas and change the narratives and circumstance of our rural dwellers.Akwa Ibom people are looking forward to seeing more expansions in our infrastructure.”
Eno said he created a new Ministry of Internal Security to ensure continuous peace and security of lives and property of the people and to tackle uprisings against the establishment and maintenance of key government investments and infrastructure.
“This Ministry will continue to collaborate with our security agencies and work towards ensuring the peace we have enjoyed is maintained and deepened, so investors and tourists will continue to make our State their destination of choice.
“We owe our children the best public funded education possible. Most of us here, are products of public schools, we must continue to invest heavily in both the physical structures and the quality of learning, so our children may be competitive and equipped with the right skills-set
He urged the new appointees to go back and stimulate rural developments in thier respective local areas by engaging the people regularly and monitoring the implementation of government programmes in their areas.
“This government is determined to expand development in our rural areas, we must grow our people and ignite in them a spirit of hard work and a sense of responsibility.
“Our youths must be engaged so we can stem a culture of entitlement, without corresponding work, which as you all know, is alien to us, but which, sadly appears to have been internalized by our people. Our people are exceptionally gifted and all we need, is to galvanize them towards productive enterprises.”
While unveiling the logo of his Arise Agenda, the governor said the new governance roadmap would deviate from the normal to ensure delivery of its dividends to the people.
He stressed that approvals for Executive memos would henceforth be earned by situating proposals within the dictate of the Agenda comprising Agricultural revolution, tourism and environmental management, Rural development, women and youth empowerment, Infrastructural maintenance and advancement, Security management, quality health sector management and education, economic, industrial and social advancement.
Eno thanked former Governors Victor Attah and Udom Emmanuel for buying into his vision and supporting his emergence as governor of the state and appreciated the Chairman of the Ibom Dialogue Summit, Senator Udoma Udoma and Professor Barth Nnaji for investing their wealth of experience to aid his administration.
