Its a pity that since the victory of Owelle Rochas necessitated by collective struggles of the masses, a lot of evil and inhuman acts have befallen Imo State which have further fostered economic hardship and underdevelopment in the state. We therefore call on the Governor and his facebook employees who have been contracted to deceive Imolites and the general public on the social media to come out and defend these issues:
1. Sack of beneficiaries of the Ten Thousand (10,000) Job Scheme without regard to the Imo State Public/Civil Service Rules
2. Illegal Dissolution of Elected Local Government Councils.
3. Illegal proscription of Local Government Development Centers
4. Illegal Suspension/Retirement of Permanent Secretaries and public Servants.
5. Demolition of Houses in Owerri, Orlu, Okigwe, Anara, Amaraku etc without due process
6. Illegal Revocation of Plots of Lands allotted to persons without Due Process
7. Illegal trespass into Area ‘K’ Land belonging to Amawom Owerri people
8. Illegal acquisition/revocation and trespass to land belonging to Umuguma people in Owerri North.
9. Illegal Dissolution of Town Unions in all the Autonomous Communities in Imo State as against the provision of the Nigerian Constitution, the Companies and Allied Matters Act and the state law on town unions,
10. Use of Imo money and people’s land to build private university at the Governor’s home town pretending to relocate Imo State University to the site
11. At the inception of his administration, Governor Okorocha told the whole world that he had ceded the state legislative quarters to Concorde Hotel Owerri and named it Concorde Extension. Later, he renamed the place Luxury Apartment and leased it to his partner in crime who is his former Special Adviser on Project Monitoring, Prince Macdonald Akano for more than 15 years.
12. Leasing of ADAPALM to Roche Group, Imo Transport Company (I.T.C.), Concorde Hotel, Children’s Park (opposite Concorde Hotel Owerri), state General Hospitals etc for many years.
13. Sale of Imo Road Maintenance Agency (IROMA) graders, bulldozers, pay-loaders etc and appropriating same to yet to be accounted source.
14. Auction of world-class Printing and Sword Machines worth over 200 million naira (acquired during Mbakwe Administration) belonging to Imo Newspapers.
15. Illegal Borrowing of many Billions of Naira from banks.
16. Reduction of admission quota for Imo Indigenes in Imo State University and Imo State Polytechnics (IMSU) to 30%.
17. Use of state fund to sponsor daily advertorials, propaganda, world press briefings and slanted news stories in the media, with the popular “Yes, it is True” in many media houses.
18. Illegal sack of Education Secretaries in Imo State.
19. Misappropriation of Funds meant for local government councils and the Imo State Oil Producing Area Development Commission (ISOPADEC).
20. Refusal to Pay April and May 2011 Salaries and Severance Allowances to Government appointees who served Under Ohakim.
21. Refusal to Pay Community Speakers monthly allowances.
22. Refusal to pay Traditional Rulers of the 106 Autonomous Communities monthly allowances.
23. Stoppage of overtime allowance to public servants.
24. Refusal to pay minimum wage to Judiciary workers.
25. Cajole of Government Contractors into borrowing money to do government projects and refusing to formalize and pay for the contracts done.
26. Abandonment of city-gate projects in Owerri and refusal to pay contractors who are doing the job.
27. Refusal to Pay April and May 2011 Salaries, Severance benefits and other statutory entitlements to Ex-Governor Ikedi Ohakim, his Deputy Dr. Ada Okwuonu, former State Legislatures and Government Appointees who served between 2007 and 2011.
28. Creation of unconstitutional four-tier government in utter disregard to the three-tier government recognized by the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
29. Declaration of Public Holidays to celebrate Governor’s birthday and personal programmes.
30. Appropriation of state fund without recourse to budgetary provision.
31. Allocation of land meant for New Government House Complex in New Owerri to private persons as against the provision of the Owerri Master plan.
32. Appointment of magistrates without a duly constituted State Judicial Service Commission.
33. Refusal to refund the sum of =N=5,000 being fees collected from aspirants to the 2012 cancelled Community Governing Council election.
34. Legalization of abortion
35. Donation of 2million Naira each to 18 Igbos who converted to Islam through his influence
COURT JUDGMENTS DISOBEYED
36. Refusal to re-instate Elected Local Government Councils in the 27 Local Government Areas in Imo State as against the Judgment of the Court of Appeal.
37. Use of Sole Administrators to run local government councils in Imo State as against Court of Appeal declaration of Sole Administrators as unconstitutional.
38. Refusal to Re-instate Sacked Members of the Imo State Judicial Service Commission against the judgment of an Owerri High Court.
39. Refusal to obey the Court of Appeal judgment re-instating Eze C. I. Ilomuanya as the Chairman Imo State Council of Ndi-eze.
MONEY STOLEN
40. Money stolen in Connivance with Jpros Company Limited from the Construction of Warehouse Orlu Road Junction-Aba Road (which Traverses Odunze And Amigbo Streets And Old Nekede Road In Owerri Municipality) awarded to Jpros International Limited.
Governor Okorocha paid JPROS a total of =N=1.35 Billion Naira for the above road
a. =N=458 Million Naira Laundered to Dubai and Lebanon with the connivance of the Governor’s Special Adviser on Project Monitoring Prince Macdonald Akano and Mr. Joseph Dina of JPROS International Limited (yet to be recovered)
b. =N=200 Million Overpaid to JPROS Ltd. (yet to be recovered)
c. Ministry of Works valued work done by JPROS on the above road at =N=198 Million Naira. Subtracting the above funds from the entire contract sum paid, the contractor is still holding Imo people’s unspent and unaccounted =N=494 Million Naira. (As the State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, Barr. Njoku was told to recover the fund but nothing has been heard till date).
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