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Akwa Ibom Oil Communities Protest Incessant Attacks, Seek Govt’s Protection

by Iniobong Ekponta
5 months ago
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Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno

Akwa Ibom State Governor, Pastor Umo Eno

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Stakeholders from minority Ijaw and Obolo ethnic nationalities in the oil-rich Ibeno local government area of Akwa Ibom State have staged a peaceful protest over incessant attacks, killings and destruction of properties by the neighbouring Eket and Esit Eket LGAs.

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The protesters armed with placards of varying inscriptions lamented that the local and international investors in oil and gas resources including Chinese firms in the area “are facing serious threat to their businesses, which, if not addressed, could consider relocation with attendant job losses to local residents.”

They recalled that Ibeno, host to the defunct Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited (MPNU), at the Qua Iboe Terminal (QIT), now Seplat Energy Producing Unlimited (SEPNU), and other allied oil servicing firms, had been subjected to frequent attacks on February 26, 2024, November 8, 2024, December 24, 2024 and February 10, 2025.

The affected communities, according to them, included Iwuochang, Ndito Eka Iba, and Inua Eyet Ikot 11, which had suffered attacks twice by mercenaries allegedly sponsored by the Ekid People’s Union (EPU), led by the president- general, Dr. Samuel Udonsak.

Addressing the forum after the protest, Chief Okon Udofia Okon, secretary of the Ibeno Clan Council and  Capt. Okpolo Emmanuel, president of the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC), Ibeno LGA chapter, regretted the inability of governments, especially the Umo Eno – led administration in the state, to provide security to local residents of oil communities.

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“Government is not bothered about security in oil communities that produce resources that generate revenues to run Nigerian states. They allow Eket and Esit Eket to suppress and suffocate us because we choose to be peace – loving because of too many investors coming to do oil and gas businesses in our domain.

“The aggressors from Eket and Esit Eket are mistaking our silence for weakness because we know that if we react, the negative multiplier effects would be too much for the state and Nigeria because it will tell so much on the oil and gas infrastructure and job losses,” Chief Okon, noted.

At the height of the crisis, he recalled that the governor had visited and sued for peace, urging both parties to cease hostilities as the case in dispute – ownership of the Stubb Creek Forest acquired by BUA Group for the ongoing refinery project, was still pending in Court, wondering why their Ekid neighbours were still fomenting violence with threat to exterminate Ibeno people from their ancestral land because of the oil resources.

In the same vein, Capt. Okpolo, the IYC leader, warned of heavy reprisal that would be more devastating, wondering why a sovereign LGA created and gazetted by the federal government could be issued a quit notice by another LGA, recalling that the Dr. Udonsak – led EPU, had issued the “quit notice” last month after their annual congress, with a follow- up attacks subsequently.

He said despite various police checkpoints along the major link road, the protesters wondered why such attacks, killings and destruction of properties against Ibeno people continue to remain a recurring decimal.

The communique reads: “It’s on record that the attack on Iwuochang community, Ibeno LGA on 25 February, 2024, by the Eket people and subsequent attacks at Inua Eyet Ikot 11, on 8 November, 2024, another at Ndito Eka Iba village on December 24, 2024. In January 2025, the Eket people, after their annual congress, issued a press statement threatening to forcefully vacate the Ibeno people in their ancestral land.

“As a follow up to their threat, Eket people have continually sponsored attacks against Ibeno communities, the most recent being the fourth in the series of attacks on Inua Eyet Ikot 11 community on February 10, 2025.”


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