Rt. Hon. Onofiok Luke is the Speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly. He is a foremost youth leader, and a social equality advocate. His leadership interests are chiefly in education and economic empowerment of women and youths for sustainable development. As a two-term member of the Akwa Ibom state House of Assembly, he has served variously as Chairman of the assembly’s committee on Appropriation and Finance, committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources, committee on Judiciary, Justice, Human Rights, and Public Petitions, among others. For three years, he led deliberations on state budget proposals, oversaw the activities of the state’s ministry of finance, probed the fiscal conduct of government, and led the review of the conduct of the State Budget Office. He spearheaded the introduction of the practice of participatory budgeting in the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly in 2012, an effort to ensure a more transparent and people-centred budgeting...