EDONWIK VILLAGE IN AKWA IBOM

It was a long day’s journey to Ibeno Beach before setting out to explore the next destination. We took another bike  heading to the park located in Eket. I was enjoying myself with these cool blues and 100% fresh breeze. After some minutes, we stopped at the park and decided to head to the next destination. So we called some bikes and negotiated with them concerning the price. Some of the bike men were telling us higher price not until we got ourselves an understandable bike man who accepted our price to the next destination.

The next destination is located in Iko town and the name of the destination is called cashew beach. So the bike man agreed to carry two passengers for 1200 Naira while one passenger for 800 Naira. It took us close to 35 minutes before getting to iko town. Immediately I came down from the bike, I started laughing and Jennifer asked Dennis why are you laughing; I replied to her that the destination is beyond these rivers. 

I thought I had gotten to my destination not knowing that we just started the journey. The place the bike men stopped was thoroughly Iko town but not where the cashew beach was located. We have to start asking people around where we can find cashew beach. Their reply was electrifying. One of the villager’s told us nothing like cashew beach but there’s a beach across the river but definitely not the name we called. So he said we should cross the water to the other side where we can see the beach. 

So, we saw the next boat loading and quickly jumped into the boat. Jennifer was a little bit scared and she turned to me asking me if I can swim? and I said to her it was not really good. “To tell you the truth, my mind was shaking as I was about to the boat but as a man I have to hold myself so that she won’t suspect me. Lol.” 

The boat price to cross to the other side was just 100 naira. 

It was not up to 15 minutes when we got to the beach. So I was so happy. Actually we have to trek small, like 5 minutes before getting to the beach. To God be the glory, we finally got to our destination but I was surprised at what I’m seeing. They called it cashew beach but it is not like cashew beach. Rather they should have called it COCONUT BEACH before there is a lot of coconut on that island.  But to clear my doubt, I started asking some educated one’s asking them if this is cashew beach? But their reply was not encouraging. I quickly told my friend, I would love to explore down the beach. Which they agreed to explore with me.

So we started our journey, as we are going we are still asking people on the way if they know any cashew beach. Not until we came across one of the villages or cloth for doing this.  We quickly entered the village, lord and behold the village, the village was so calm. But the house was so local; the house is built with palm trees and other things very nicely. I was opportune to interview one of the villager’s. So, I quickly asked a question concerning the cashew beach and he replied that cashew is better in this marriage 🤣🤣🤣. I told myself that I did not plan this… I went ahead asking a question: what is the name of the village?. The name of the village is Edonwik village.

Edonwik village is a small place that only has a few people that want government dealers to implement some things; things Like tap water, good school, hospital, Nepa and many more. That way the village will be in a better place. I felt his pain because A village where there is no water, electricity, no good schools or health centre, no good home. They only survive by fishing and this same village produces billions of naira through crude oil. Edonwik village is the name under eastern obolo local government area in akwa ibom state. These people are really suffering. 

I think their government should look into their matters and help them because these people really need help. How can a full village just be kept in the dark just like that. I can see the bitterness in them immediately they saw us.

If you are connected to the state government of Akwa ibom State, kindly reach out to him for a proper look and see where his help will come in before these people become a problem to tourists visiting the beach over there. I even heard some NGO came to open pipe borne water and schools that just have 3 class rooms. 

From the information I gather from the villager’s, the school has not been operated for two years because they were not able to pay the teachers salary and the school is just for nursery class. 

The pipe borne water is faulty that makes them go get bags of pure water across the next town for cooking and drinking. 

God will bless those NGO but they still need the touch of the government to do something. I’m even wondering how the pregnant women put to bath. What edonwik village is best known for is fishing. Through fishing, the people of edonwik village survive. I didn’t forget to ask the village chief about the beach name called cashew beach and the village chief said there is nothing like cashew beach. The name of the beach is Edonwik Beach. I can even call the beach coconut beach because of the coconut trees over there.

The villager’s are so kind as to offer us 7 coconuts to take home, which we drank like 3 coconuts of water. It was fun anyway.