The Concept of Work in Our Akwa Ibom and the Process of Getting One.

SOCIALS

Toney etido (senior staff writer)

Too much hardship in the state

Amakap u’yenyen utom! And what work? Government work is the one and only craving in our state, Akwa Ibom among many. And in this process many have fallen prey and endued degradation of all sorts just to secure one fes fes.

I know of a friend who has been hunting for government job for ten years now, abandoning her lucrative job that offered her room to develop and become something really bigger than having to be in government, which she would have been by now, but for this one craving for government job or nothing!

For close to three years now I know she has not been paid, even after landing the government job las las, all thanks to her insistence that it must be government work or nothing else! Apparently my friend hit her “goldmine”, at least, so she thought, when with a whisker of luck and providence, the school she just went to attached herself to while she wait for the government employment, which she had earlier slaved and suffered all manner of degradations for with one of the aids of the wife of the governor, with the believe that at least when employment opportunity comes “Mma would include my name”, government announced the taking over of six community secondary schools in the state, the school she was attached to, one of them. My friend, who is a lab scientist, who had earlier served Mma for close to three years without seeing or realizing the promised and hope upon job, kukuma choose to stay with the community secondary school she has seen the glory from. From May, 2017 when the government of Deacon Udom Emmanuel announced the taking over of those six community secondary schools across the three senatorial district of the state, suffice me to let you know that up till now, most of those staffs that the government inherited from those schools, including my friend have not been paid, and they have been and are still working, even after going through severe rigorous rescreening exercise to be reabsorbed. They too are Akwa Ibomite, and so are we all. Why won’t they and we all crave for government job, when government has appropriated government recourses to only those that are in government or government workers. We wey no dey gofment nko? We’all gona die!