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| L-R: Gov Ben Ayade and Chief Ray Morphy |
3 November 2020
Chief Ray Ugba Morphy the former Special Adviser on Strategy and National Contact to the Governor of Cross River state, Sen. Prof. Ben Ayade, has made a disclosure on ten reasons he resigned his appointment with the state government on 16th July 2016 NEGROIDHAVEN can confirm.
In a statement titled ‘He never listened’ and personally signed by Morphy being made available to our correspondent on Tuesday, Morphy highlighted that Gov Ayade refused to listen to his advise on prioritising citizen-enhancing projects, shun rampant signing of MoUs focusing on skill acquisition, forget grandiose programmes, revitalising education, appoint critical aides who are technocrats, infrastructural development, nepotism and sustain previous public policy of previous state administrations.
According to the Mgba Ntol, the failure of Ayade to adhere to these advice justifies his decision to resign and the likely reason why the administration has failed.
What follows is an excerpt of ‘He never listened’:
1. I told him to concentrate on citizen-enhancing projects spread across the LGAs, he ignored, he never listened.
2. I told him to forget his MoUs and concentrate on skill acquisition for our youth. I told him to use the Togolese model and the Indian model where they trained their youth and then export them as skilled-trained labor who will in turn repatriate Dollars and help boost the economy. He never listened.
3. I told him to forget those grandiose impossible projects such as super highway and concentrate on fixing and improving the rural road networks. He ignored, he never listened.
4. I told him that our school standards were low! I told him to embark on a massive teacher recruitment and education upgrade program. He ignored, he never listened.
5. I told him to appoint experienced hands who would look him in the face and correct him. He didn’t want that, he knew all things. He never listened.
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| Morphy’s letter of resignation in 2016 in Gov Ayade’s first term in office |
6. I told him to reduce the greed and the playing around. I told him that government was a serious business that requires thinking and thinkers, not just a food-on-the table approach. He ignored he never listened.
7. I told him that he will regret his approach to governance. I told him that the thing will rotten and smell in his hands and he will be cited as the worst governor ever. He ignored the sane free advice, he never listened.
8. I told him to concentrate on projects such as roads and finish them before embarking on other ones. I told him it was wrong to scrape off existing roads and destroy people’s roadside shops when he had no intention of speedily doing the roads, of course he ignored. He never listened.
9. I told him that our people needed rural hospitals and rural roads, boreholes and enhanced markets. I told him our people needed to be empowered through cooperatives. I told him to stop his obvious family-based nepotism since the entire state voted for him, the entire state should benefit from government. He ignored, he never listened.
10. I told him not to abandon the nearly completed roads of the previous Liyel Imoke’s administration, he ignored, he never listened!
Now he knows that I was right. And I am still right. What a wise gifted thinker sits down to see, a comic on a tall tree can never see it.
Now you you know WHY I RESIGNED THAT APPOINTMENT! Today, I stand tall because I am vindicated! But I am saddened by the wasted years!
