The memory of how Akwa Ibom State, between 2011 and 2015 A.D, was ruled and ruined, is indelibly registered in my sub-conscious. Our own dear native land, my beloved fatherland, was in disorder. Carrying of coal (our money) to New Castle (already wealthy people) or throwing of our commonwealth into the abyss was order of the day. Kidnapping, rape, intimidation, despoliation, destruction, devastation, wasting of human lives and materials, insult upon injury! What a chaos, what a damage, what a plundering or profligacy, what a wreckage! And what exactly gave birth to all these? Nothing but unbridled selfishness and greed; nothing but the hay-wired or topsy–turvy political ambition of one unconscionable, insensitive, vain, thriftless, heartless man. Kai! The fruitless, terrible and unforgettable years of Godswill Obot Akpab...
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