4 July 2017
Your Excellency, Sir:
DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES IN BIASE LGA
Whatever incommodity that may accompany my choice of communicating to you through this open medium is highly regretted, please.
Your excellency, I may not have the requisite intellectual acumen to tactfully engage you with the plethora of developmental issues that bedevil Biase local government area. However I could stringed together the pieces of tenses that fall from my faculty, I plead that you condescend to digest the terse content of this letter.
I present to you, your Excellency: Biase. Your Biase. My Biase. Our Biase. In the last three months, I went on my way to assess developmental issues in Biase local government area. The results I came back with were sadly uneviable. Socio-economic, political and human capital indicators in Biase are at their lowest. If I am called upon to rate, I will objectively put Biase at the apex of most under developed local government areas in Cross River State. Majority of villages in Biase lack anything from electricity, pipe-borne water, access roads, standard healthcare facilities and even mobile telephone network.
It is surprising to note, Your Excellency, that Biase as a whole cannot boast of a single financial institution. The two noticeable state government presence in the local government are secondary schools in some communities and the cottage hospital in Akpet. In general, there is absolutely no federal government presence.
On a visit to most communities in Biase, one is usually greeted with a sight of large number of idle youths, especially boys of school-going age. And when asked why not in school, they will reeled out the financial hurdles before them. This is however implicated in the low number of Biase indigenes in tertiary institutions compared to other LGAs. And these idle youths are ready tools in fomenting inter-communal unrest.
Your Excellency, it is an irony that mother Biase parades many notable sons and daughters who are making their marks else where, yet the home front is gasping desperately for breath of development. Over time, I have come to understand that every big man or woman from Biase is on his or her own. There is no unity among the big and mighty in Biase. Everyone seems to work in isolation. Lying side by side with this is the apparent lack of healthy competition among prominent sons and daughters of Biase. Competitiveness is a plus in accelerating development in human community.
In view of the above, your Excellency, any attempt at solving the Biase question must first of all begin with the identification of a father figure who can bring all the who is who in Biase under one roof to chat the way forward. And in seeking that father figure, no one readily comes to mind than you, your Excellency, Sir, Going by your enormous track records of experience in the management and coordination of large governmental organizations with proven successes, you aptly fit into the role of rallying all and sundry toward realizing a greater Biase.
To this end, your Excellency, I wish to suggest at this juncture the setting up of Biase Development Forum which would serve as a platform for cross fertilization of ideas on how best to move Biase out of its present socio-political and economic doldrums.
I do not wish to write you an elaborate letter. My ink stops here.
Thank you for your time, your Excellency.
KELVIN OBAMBON
Calabar, Nigeria.
2nd July, 2017.
