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| Onofiok Luke |
•Trade conscience for N30m
•We’ll treat his fuck-up – Youths
The fisticuff which led to the manhandling of the member representing
Nsit Ubium in the state house of assembly may have come and gone, but the
memories will still linger in the mind of a great number of Akwa Ibom people.
One of such memories being that, Hon. Onofiok Luke is the first Ibibio
lawmaker to have been beaten in the Annang Land in front of his boss- the
Governor, and video clips of the beating produced an circulated
The governor was said to have agreed on the terms until the member
representing Nsit Ubium in the state house of assembly, Hon. Onofiok Luke, who
was well beaten, betrayed the lawmakers and negotiated for a sum of 30 million
naira to be given to him in order for him to refute the earlier reports on the
media as well as to settle his boys who had earlier convened meetings with a
view to unleashing mayhem on Hon. Emmanuel Ekon and Hon. Nse Ntuen for beating
their ‘brother’.
An aide to the governor who did not want his name on print confirmed
that as soon as the governor gave Onofiok the cash, he refuted the reports on
the pages of newspapers, and the cyber spce
It was learnt the Barr. Onofiok however did not give a dime from the
largesse to his boys, let alone disclosed that he had received the said amount
from the governor to other members, rather he traveled out of the country.
This act which a group of lawmakers who stood by him, have described
as the height of betrayal, has pitched Barr.Onofiok against other lawmakers who
are his allies in the hallowed chambers.
Reacting to the incident, a lawmaker from Ikot Ekpene senatorial
district who is a close ally to Hon.Onofiok Luke, and who was strongly opposed
to the manhandling of Barr. Luke, has described the betrayal as a vice that is
common to the Ibibio tribe, stressing that Ibibio People have never stood for a
cause to the end.
‘can you imagine the act of betrayal? Someone we wanted to help by
insisting that the duo of Hon. Emmanuel Ekon and Hon. Nse Ntuen should tender
apology to the house has ended up betraying us for a token of 30 million naira.
This is shameful!’ he exclaimed.
The lawmaker recalled how Onofiok Luke usually spearheaded the removal
of the speaker of the house of assembly on several occasions, and promised
never to follow Barr. Onofiok whom he described as a small boy and an
opportunist again.
In the meantime, a cross section of ‘the boys’ have expressed their
disbelief at the turn of event, pointing out that the lawmaker has by that
singular act of betrayal subtracted the level of confidence the boys have on
him.
Spokesperson of the group, who only gave his name as Boro said the
boys are not happy with the new development, pointing out that they got to hear
from another lawmaker in the house that the lawmaker had been settled by the
Governor to keep quiet and issue a statement.
‘In this our business, there is no friend, no foe, a brother does not
betray fellow brother, so for Onofiok Luke to have collected 30 Million naira
without duly briefing us why he directed that we should back off from the
planned revenge mission is against everything the “brotherhood” stands for. He
should have understood that this was meant to be a serious revenge mission on
the Annangs who had the nerves to physically assult him. Well, since he is our
boss, let’s wait and see if he will “bless us” with our own share from the
30million naira. He knows that you don’t just call off a revenge mission like
that when it is almost at the execution point” the spokesperson of “the Boys”
hinted.
At presstime, it was gathered that, the governor later appeased other
members of the state house of assembly with a sum of 20 million naira.
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