There Are More Churches in Akwa Ibom Than Lagos

 

There Are More Churches in Akwa Ibom Than Lagos 

Akwa Ibom State created on September 23, 1987 with an estimated population of  7,200,000 people has more churches than Lagos State with an estimated population of 16,536,018 people.

There are about four churches on every street in Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom.

 The Governor, Pastor Umo Bassey Eno, an ordained Pentecostal minister before joining politics is happy with the proliferation of churches, because the millions of churchgoers voted for him to win the gubernatorial election in 2023 and he is depending on them for his reelection for a second term in 2027.  But many people in Uyo said what they want are more factories and not churches, because the state is economically underdeveloped without large industries to employ thousands of the jobless people roaming the streets of Akwa Ibom and majority of the farmers are poor rural dwellers still doing primitive farming without mechanized agriculture.

Akwa Ibom’s N32 billion Yamoussoukro Basilica | TheCable

"Constructed with taxpayers’ sweats to the tune of about N32 billion, many feel that in a state ravaged by squalor, hunger, underdevelopment and gross lack, was Nigeria a country where there was repercussion for governmental misjudgment and profligacy, all those behind the construction of this wastage should be made to cough out every farthing, the product of their greed and indiscretion. It is benumbing to imagine a state spending this much to construct a church auditorium despite its huge unemployment ranking among states in Nigeria, without any regard for its oil-rich status."
https://www.thecable.ng/akwa-iboms-n32-billion-yamoussoukro-basilica/#:~:text=Constructed%20with%20taxpayers,oil%2Drich%20status.