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How Etiebet Nearly Botched Akpabio's Stakeholders' Meet
Coming on the heels of resurgent spate of kidnaps and the abduction saga of Maj. Gen. Edet Akpan (Rtd.) on Sunday, January 31, 2010, an all-embracing stakeholders' meet was convened at the instance of the Akwa Ibom State governor, Chief Godswill Obot Akpabio on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at the Akpan Isemin Hall wing of the Governor's office complex, Uyo.
Fillers which emanated from authoritative sources that featured prominently at the closed door meeting have it that the sole agenda that occupied the gathering of the state's who-is-who in the political, traditional and religious institutions was the recurring worrisome state of insecurity in the erstwhile peaceful terrain of Akwa Ibom State.
The sources said that no sooner the state governor threw the security issue on the floor for deliberations on the cause and    Comments
 
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AKS security system has failed  The kidnapped of the erstwhile Director General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), retired General Edet Akpan, by gun men in the Akwa Ibom State on Sunday, January 31, has continued to generate reactions across the state, especially from his Ibibio kinsmen, one of such     Comments

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