The Akwa Ibom State Government has apologized to President
Muhammadu Buhari over the embarrassment caused by his Senate Liaison officer
and Special Assistant on Senate Matters Chief Ita Enang.
The State Commissioner for Information Mr Aniekan Umanah,
who conveyed the position of the State government in a radio interview programme
in Uyo said that Akwa Ibom people felt ashamed by the dent brought to the state
by Enang’s illicit actions.
“Our people were rather shocked when they heard on the news
that a budget submitted in full glare before the senate had been retrieved and
swapped illegally by Senator Enang, without the knowledge of the Senate
leadership and this has brought severe ridicule to the image of the state.”
The information maestro explained that such poor conduct in
public office was not in the character of Akwa Ibom people, and expressed
dismay that such a national disgrace would be linked to the peaceable and
lawabiding people of the state.
Umanah relayed the sympathy of the people of the state to President
Buhari, saying no one would have envisaged that a man of Senator Ita Enang’s
pedigree could have condescended to the level of such inactions leveled against
him by the senate leadership, thereby being disrepute to the anti-corruption
battle by the President.
Although Enang has refused to comment or respond to the
issue, the Information commissioner maintained that, “Let’s give our brother Ita Enang the benefit
of doubts and give him time to come around and explain that what we are hearing
is not really true.”
The fears in a section of the country was heightened last
weekend when the Senate President, Senator
Bukola Saraki specifically accused the Senior Special Assistant to President
Muhammadu Buhari on National Assembly Matters, Senator Ita Solomon Enang of
masterminding the disappearance of the missing 2016 budget.
Saraki said that Senator Enang was
behind the stealing and replacing the budget with an entirely different copy of
the budget after Senator Enang produced and was circulating a copy different
from what he had.
Saraki said that Senator Ita Enang
withdrew Mr. President version and submitted another version.
Essien E. Ndueso
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Media Directorate
Akwa Ibom State Divine Mandate
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