Udom Emmanuel swears in four commissioners, five perm secs

Udom Emmanuel, governor of Akwa Ibom state, has sworn in four new commissioner and five permanent secretaries.

The commissioners are Uko Udom, John Etim, Idongesit Etiebet and Umo Eno.

The permanent secretaries are Ini James Ikie, Ini Jackson Etukudo, Esther Aniekan Inyang, Grace Paulinus Jim, and Abasiekeme Victor Essien.

The swearing-in ceremony took place at banquet hall, government house, Uyo, on Monday, January 4, 2021.

The governor while administering the oath of allegiance to the appointees, charged them on creativity, diligence and commitment to service in line with the his administration’s completion agenda.

“You have a major task and a critical time you joining us on the Completion Agenda and we are not joking about it, if we don’t lay a proper economic foundation for our state now once we derail we would gone a lot backwards,” he said.

“You can see a whole lot of things we are doing to make sure we set up a proper economic foundation for the state, so it is a call to duty, it is a call to serve our people. God endowed you with that wisdom and gave you connections so we are all here to serve our state and make the light to shine in our state.”

The governor advised the commissioners to be committed and diligent in their service emphasising that they should remain focused irrespective of criticism.

“You must serve people diligently knowing fully that you are serving God, in every position and anything we are appointed to do, we must serve diligently with all amount of sincerity, forget about criticisms everybody cannot say everything good about you, people will lie against you but that doesn’t matter let your conscience bear witness to what you are doing for your people,” he said.