A'IBOM ASSEMBLY REINSTATES HON. ABASIAMA ETOKAKPAN AS THE SUBSTANTIVE VICE CHAIRMAN OF ORUK ANAM LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCIL

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Wlliams Akpabio - information Unit (AKHA) Uyo



Akwa Ibom State House of of Assembly in her plenary Tuesday reinstated Hon. Abasiama Etokakpan as the substantive Vice Chairman of Oruk Anam Local Government Council.


 This follows the report of the House Committee on local government and Chieftaincy Affairs on an act of complete illegality and mess on democratic tenets represented to the house on the purported impeachment of Hon Abasiama Etokakpan from office.


Presenting the Committee's report at the plenary, Rt. Hon. Mark Esset  pointed out that Hon. Abasiama Etukakpan was in the first instance, not served any official notice of impeachment.


He revealed that the reasons tendered by the Councillors to the Committee for impeaching the Vice Chairman were purely pre-election matters and lie within the electoral process and the courts. 


He also told the House that Councilors did not follow proper impeachment procedures as regulated in Section 44 of the Local Government Administration Law (2017) in the impeachment process of Hon. Abasiama Etukakpan.


"The Legislative Council usurped the powers of the House of Assembly by taking the law into their hands. The Chairman Hon. Kingsley Frank on his own authority picked and inaugurated a new Vice Chairman for Oruk Anam Legislative Council in which he has no authority to do so", he said. 


The Speaker Rt.Hon. Aniekan Bassey  directed the Clerk of the House Mrs. Mandu Umoren to communicate the House resolution to the His Excellency Governor Udom Emmanuel, Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, and other related agencies thus:

That the purported impeachment of Hon. Abasiama Etokakpan having been carried without jurisdiction and non compliance with the relevant extant laws is here by declared null and void.


That the Vice Chairman Hon. Abasiama Etokakpan be immediately reinstated and be paid all his entitlements from the date of purported impeachment.


That the grounds of the purported impeachment bothering on disqualification is a pre-election matter which can only be carried out by a court of competent jurisdiction as required by S. 31(5) & (6) of the Electoral Act 2010 ( as amended) and definitely not the legislative council.


That the legislative Council acted contrary to the section 44 of the Local Government Administration Law 2017 by removing the Vice Chairman without resorting to the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly.


That the purported swearing in of another Vice Chairman was invalid, unconstitutional and therefore a void ab initio.


And, that as a matter of urgency a training workshop should be organized for Oruk Anam  legislative Council and the entire legislative council in the state.


Recall that the Oruk Anam Legislative House had on March 23, 2021, in a petition signed by fourteen Councillors, impeached Hon. Etukakpan, citing false declaration of age as reason. 


However, the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly at its Plenary on Thursday, July 15, 2021, received two separate petitions on the matter.


The petitions were read by the Chairman, House Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Public Petitions, Hon. Victor Ekwere, while the Speaker, Rt. Hon. Aniekan Bassey, referred the matter to the House Committee on Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs headed by Rt. Hon. Mark Esset. 


The Speaker urged the Committee to investigate the petition and report back within one month. 

Meanwhile, the House therefore ordered the immeediate reinstatement of Hon. Abasiama EtukAkpan as Vice Chairman of Oruk Anam Local Government Counci.

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