By Ebriku John Friday
The General Manager, Cross River State Waste Management Agency, Hon Oko Sunday Ebeku (aka Otolo) has been honoured with Niger Delta Development Icon Merit Award 2021.
The investiture, which was done on Hon Oko Sunday at the weekend at the National Merit Award House in Abuja was organised by the management of Our Majesty Global Publication.
He was presented with the award in recognition of his immense contributions to the development of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The GM who was unavoidably absent, was represented by SA to the Governor Ben Ayade on Print Media, Ebriku John Friday.
While expressing shock over his nomination for the award, he appreciated the organisers for finding him worthy and deserving of the award. He thanked His Excellency, the Digital and Supersonic Governor of Cross River State, Sen Prof Sir Ben Ayade for the opportunity to serve.
He noted that the Cross River State Waste management Agency is working in line with the vision of the governor to turn wastes into wealth and job creation in the state, adding that with the result being being recorded in no distant time other state of the nation will visit the state to learn from it’s success story.
He therefore dedicated the award to God Almighty and his boss, Governor Ben Ayade for providing him the platform to contribute his quota to statecraft.
BRIEF PROFILE OF HON OKO SUNDAY EBEKU
With men of distinction and outstanding achievements like Hon Oko Sunday Ebeku on the helm of affairs of the state agencies and parastatals, the state is bound to succeed in development activities. Cross River State under Governor Ben Ayade is witnessing tremendous development today as a result of the right people he put in strategic places doing the right at the right time. At the Cross River State Waste Management Agency where Hon Oko is the General Manager, success stories have been the order of the day. A man of insatiable appetite for success, an achiever in development, an astute administrator and a political heavyweight.
Since his first political appointment as the Supervisor of Word in Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State in 1990, he has continued to position himself as a leading-light when it come to task accomplishment and development ideas. The landmark achievements credited to him in the previous capacities he had worked for the state necessitated his current appointment as the General Manager of Cross River State Waste Management Agency where boldness, creativity, patriotism and cutting edge ideas are needed to make meaningful impact.
An illustrious son of Yala Local Government Area of Cross River State, he was born on the 14th day of May in 1963. Young and vibrant Oko Sunday Ebeku embraced Western education and excelled in the pursuit of knowledge and graduated with degree in Public Administration from the University of Calabar, Cross River State.
Characterised by patriotic acts that elevates and develops a nation, coupled with his exposure and passion for the welfare of humanity, he was appointed the Coordinator of Olusegun Obasanjo/Atiku Campaign in the first tenure of the fourth republic in Cross River State. He also served as the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of Pelican Stars, Calabar, the Government’w sports unit for the female.
It is also on record that Hon Oko’s visionary contribution as Special Adviser to the Cross River State Governor on Tourism development of the state helped in sustaining the state to retain it’s leading position in the comity of tourism states in Nigeria.
Between 2003 and 2008, Hon Oko Sunday Ebeku was elected State Treasurer for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Cross River State chapter. He coordinated the re-election of former Governor of the state, His Excellency, Mr Donald Duke in 2003 and also served as the Transition Chairman on Agric for Senator Liyel Imoke’s election in 2007. Hon Oko equally distinguished himself as a Member of New City Development Agency in the state where he brought his high taste on city planning to bare.
Hon Oko Sunday Ebeku is among the few development agents of the Niger Delta region that needs little or no introduction in Cross River State as his name is synonymous with success and community development. Since his assumption of duty as the General Manager, Cross River State Waste Management Agency, the agency has become very popular and an agency to reckon with in the state as he has brought in his creative ingenuity to bare.
He is happily married and blessed with children.
