The Paramount Ruler of Ibeno Local Government Area, Owong Effiong Bassey Archianga has dismissed a recent report alleging that he was dead, as false, shocking, ill-intentioned, and libelous
The Paramount Ruler who stated this in a statement, said the offensive publication authored by Mr Manfred Ekpe on a social media platform
was ridden with false and outrageous stories about his ancestry.
Owong Effiong Bassey Archianga
Owong Achianga complained that the alleged injurious publication wrongly claimed that he manipulated his identity and supposedly his original ancestry by stating that ” Edidem Effiong Achianga, who is a son of Etebi in Esit Eket Local Government Area and whose biological father’s gravesite is at Etebi, but who chose to turn over himself to Ibeno and fight against his people.
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In the release, entitled False/Libellous publication by Mr. Manfred A. Ekpe against HRM Owong Prof. Effiong Bassey Archianga, Demand for Apology” and signed by the ruler’s legal adviser, Barr Diamond Akpanika, and his Senior Personal Assistant, Chief Okon Udofia Okon, the paramount ruler called on Mr. Ekpe to retract the false publication and tender unreserved apologies within seven days or face prosecution.
He condemned the attitude of the purveyor of the said offensive publication for, in his words, spending most of his days reeling out several funny, sensational, fictitious, unsubstantiated, and unverified stories which sometimes are calculated to and are capable of creating disaffection in the community.
The Paramount ruler stated that he was alive and maintained that he is from Okposo 1 in Ibeno Local Government Area, not from Etebi or any village in Eket or Esit Eket Local Government Areas; does not have any affinity or consanguinity with anyone or any family in Eket or Esit Eket Local Government Area.
