Mboho Mkparawa Ibibio (MMI) is a socio-cultural Organization of Ibibio young adults formed in Calabar on 1st August, 1987, when the present Akwa Ibom State of Nigeria was a component of the old Cross River State. It is registered with the Nigerian Corporate Affairs Commission under the Companies and Allied Matters Act of 1990.
A pressure group uniquely different, with a divinely driven mission to re-engineer, restructure, and build Akwa Ibom State and its people for the good of all, based on love, unity, and strength.
The Mboho is an active, virile, and prolific association of a forward-looking, God-fearing, creative, dedicated, and self-sacrificing Ibibio people. Mboho members draw their inspiration from the 1928 declaration of the legendary Ibibio Union of old, which catered for the entire mainland part of the Old Calabar Province-Ibibio, Annang, Oron, Eket, Ubium, and the other subgroups.
As a proactive Ibibio organization with a global perspective, Mboho has more than 58 Chapters in major cities in Nigeria and the diaspora. Some of the diaspora chapters are London, Manchester (UK), Heathrow, Essex all in UK: Bologna, Italy; Vienna, Austria; Dublin, Northern Ireland; Berlin, Germany; Houston, Los Angeles, Detroit, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC, Atlanta, New Jersey, Philadelphia, New York, Dallas all in USA; Douala in Cameroun and Johannesburg, South Africa with some significant coordination work ongoing to establish Chapters in other parts of the world.
Mboho Mkparawa Ibibio International promotes inter-ethnic cooperation and consistently reaches out to other organizations and groups of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and beyond. As a pragmatic demonstration of this philosophy, Mboho extended membership to non-Ibibios such as Alhaji Abdullahi Maccido, a prominent Prince of the Sokoto Caliphate; Chief Joshua Dariye, the former Governor of Plateau State; Alhaji Bukar Mandara of Borno State; Senator Ike Nwachukwu; former Governor Donald Duke of Cross River State; Engr. (Dr.) Chris Ekpenyong, the former Deputy Governor of Akwa Ibom State; Chief (Barr.) Peter Linus Umoh, the former Speaker of the Akwa Ibom State House of Assembly, and His Excellency Akparawa (Dr.) Godswill Akpabio, just to mention a few.
Mboho Mkparawa Ibibio believes in unity, seeks peace, and always pursues it. To this end, it embarked on a unity tour of the 31 Local Government Areas of Akwa Ibom State and conducted a unity rally in 3 Senatorial Districts of the State. Furthermore, it promotes unity by sponsoring the Mboho Unity Football Cup among Secondary Schools in the State. Mboho Mkparawa Ibibio participates in other robust community development, philanthropic, and compassionate activities within its communities.
