OPINION: Documents Don’t Lie: How Akwa Ibom 1998 Compensation Confirms Ekid Ownership of Stubbs Creek Forest
By Assam Abia. History has a way of preserving truth, even when present narratives attempt to blur it. In the raging controversy over the ownership of the Stubbs Creek Forest Reserve, known to the Ekid people as Akoiyak Ekid, official records of the Akwa Ibom State Government itself have resurfaced to challenge a recent press…