A THANK YOU NOTE BY "NINNAKNA"

The newly elected Board of Trustees, and members of Nka Ima Ndito Nsit Atai Ke North America along with the newly elected Executive do hereby express their profound love, gratitude and appreciation to all those who attended the "FREE FOR ALL NIGHT OF FEASTING, DANCING AND AWARD CEREMONY" during the labor day week end, at the Highbridge Community Church Annex, 1272 Ogden Avenue, Bronx, New York.

We were highly and most respectfully honored by your presence as our quest despite the short notice.The fact that you all gave up your valuable time to spent a part of your labor day holiday week end with us was both encouraging and gratifying. For that reason we say, "THANK YOU." We hope that the time you spent with us that evening was most rewarding.

Our "Thank You" message will not be complete without mentioning our two special quests of honors, Maureen Jones (our Accountant) and Dr. Udo Ekanem (our Consultant) who graced the occasion with their presence for the award recognition ceremony. We are most grateful to Maureen Jones for not only her heart felt financial support but also for her professional guidance and advice for seven good years since the inception of the organization.

We are particularly grateful to Dr. Udo Ekanem for sincerely and successfully providing this organization his professional service as a Consultant free of charge when the association was undergoing re-organization from September 2014 to June 2015. His broom stick philosophy of (united - we - stand - and - divided - we - fall) during this period greatly encouraged us as a clan to stay focus. Those who have to deal with Dr. Udo Ekanem have always been impressed by his calmness, shrewd judgement and loyalty, devotion to duty, sympathy and consideration for others. These special qualities of Dr. Udo Ekanem is what distinguish him out among others to be the person most sought for business advice and conflict resolution.

We thank all our special quests among them are Dr. Nkanga Nkanga, Chief / Mrs. Kokoette & Pauline Essien, Chief Bassey Mbaba, Chapter President, AKISAN -New York, Mr. / Mrs. Eno Udoh, Mr. / Mrs. Okon Akpan of Queens, Mr. / Mrs. Samson Ekong and his family of Hempstead,

Dr. Asuquo Onda, Dr. Edet Afia, Dr. Victoria Edem, and Chief Akpan Charles Akpabio for their show of support and encouragement.

The occasion would not have been what it was without the well known Akwa Ibom foods .