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Accomplishments and Milestones

Among its outstanding accomplishments since its inception, and a number of acronyms to boot, the following are of historical importance in chronological order:

  1. IPC has been a major player in the fight for socioeconomic justice. In pursuit of this goal, IPC had on July 9, 1999, sent an Open Letter on Revenue Allocation and Environmental Degradation to President Obasanjo and the Speaker of the National Assembly.
  2. On April 24, 2000, IPC sent another letter to President Obasanjo on the issues of onshore-offshore dichotomy and the ceding of Bakassi peninsula to Cross River State,
  3. On July 9, 2001, IPC launched a mass protest with letters sent to the United States President and members of the Congress in Washington, D.C., following the arrest and humiliation of Akwa lbom dignitaries at Los Angeles International Airport by the US Immigration and Naturalization Service officials.
  4. The IPC protest of this cruel and racially motivated action led to the extraction of a rare letter of apology dated August 21, 2001, from the United States Department of Justice (USINS).
  5. At the Akwa Ibom National Convention site at San Francisco in August 2001, IPC organized a workshop with presentation by various Akwa Ibom sons and daughters on issues of importance to average Akwa Ibomite.
  6. In appreciation of their fact-finding mission to Akwa lbom State to assess ExxonMobil lopsided treatment of Akwa lbomites, IPC on November 20, 2001 sent a letter of appreciation to the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) in Washington D.C. In that letter, IPC called on the CBC to exert more pressure on ExxonMobil to have Akwa lbomites assume high-level management and Board of Trustees' positions, as well as pressure ExxonMobil to relocate its operational headquarters from Lagos to Akwa lbom State.
  7. On May 5, 2002, IPC sent a letter with nearly 1000 signatures to President Obasanjo and the National Assembly in response to the Supreme Court (mis)ruling on the onshore-offshore dichotomy.
  8. On September 30, 2002, IPC protested with a letter to members of the National Assembly following the introduction by the president of contiguous zone into the bill that was meant to abolish the onshore-offshore dichotomy
  9. IPC on January 15, 2003, reacted with another strongly worded letter to members of the National Assembly when President Obasanjo refused to sign into law the onshore-offshore bill as amended by the National Assembly to include the Continental Shelf.
  10. At the site of Akwa Ibom National Convention in Washington DC in August 2003, IPC formerly met to internationalize its activities with the election of its first international executives. In November of that year, a plan was put in place to organize the first international summit where Akwa Ibomites from around the world would meet to deliberate on Akwa Ibom State.

Downloadable Documents

  1. IPC Milestones and Accomplishments (PDF)
  2. IPC 2006 Summit - Gubernatorial Debate at Uyo (PDF)
  3. IPC 2006 Summit & Failure of Turkey's OSTIM Project (PDF)
  4. IPC 2006 Summit Wrap-Up (PDF)

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