Village Heads, Youth Presidents and other leaders of the villages in Ukam, have commended the Transition Committee Chairman of Mkpat Enin Local Government Area, Hon. Mercy Bassey, over laudable interventions that have brought stability and peace to the community.

The community leaders, who gave the commendations on Thursday, February 22, 2024, during a courtesy visit on the Chairman, expressed their gratitude to the Transition Committee for restoring peace and order in Ukam market.

Eteidung Obot Uteh Akpan, the village head of Ikot Ediongo Ukam, who lead the team, noted that the recent interventions by the Transition Committee Chairman ensured the end of unnecessary hostility by some persons within the market, adding that Ukam community is a center of trade and should therefore be very peaceful and welcoming.

Others who spoke during the courtesy visit, also thanked the Chairman and the Transition Committee for their timely intervention while declaring their support to the administration.

They appealed that the Transition Committee Chairman should retrieve the generator that was donated to the community by Senator Ekong Samson which was seized by the immediate past Market Chairman, Akanimo Bob Ikpe, barely two weeks after the donation for over two years now.