A lecturer in the University of Cross River (UNICROSS), Dr. Fabian Njah Bassey, has tasked the Senator representing the Central Senatorial District, Senator Eteng Jones Williams, to take one of his loyalists, Dr Trinity Jesam off the street of Calabar.
Dr Bassey who lectures in the Department of Mass Communication, threw the open challenge to the Senator via a post on his Facebook account, while replying to a post made by Trinity.
Trinity Jesam had taken to his Facebook account to share a post about the federal lawmaker’s attendance at the Niger Delta Development Commission’s (NDDC) Executive Management Engagement with Niger Delta Ethnic Nationalities and Selected Stakeholders, in which Senator Eteng Williams commended the interventionist agency for launching the Youth Internship Scheme that would pay N50,000 monthly to 10,000 youths from the region.
But reacting to the post, Dr Bassey lamented over issues of infrastructure, poor social and economic conditions and low level of human capital development that have plagued the Central Senatorial District and therefore wondered how N50,000 stipend would bring a turn around in such situation.
According to him, “This isn’t what we want at the moment. We want sustainable development. Our people are dying of hunger and starvation, our youths are roaming the streets without jobs, our children are out of schools because their parents can’t pay their fees, our farmlands are uncultivated due to insecurity, our cars are crashing due to bad roads, our hospitals are ill-equipped, our schools are underfunded, etc. And they come to engage youths with a paltry N50,000 monthly but reserve the best of jobs for their children.”
He regretted that “Even the writer of this article is not gainfully employed but he’s been writing articles to promote this Senator Eteng Jones Williams right from his days as Honourable Member of CRSHoA. I challenge the Senator to take Trinity Jesam off the streets of Calabar and get him a job for the numerous publicity services he’s rendered to promote his activities. Until then, let nobody tell me anything regarding his “good” works.”
