Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has decried payment of ‘outrageous’ pensions to former governors and deputies while retired workers are owed their monthly stipends as daylight robbery.
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The gunmen also attacked the headquarters of the state’s police command.
A former governor of the State, Rochas Okorocha, had built an edifice for both the police and correctional service along Port Harcourt road but the edifices have been overgrown by weeds following the inability of the two establishments to move into the new buildings.
However, following the attack, a joint inspection of the new facilities along Port-Harcourt Road was carried out by a combined team of Imo government officials and officials of the NCoS.
Special Adviser to the Governor on Public Enlightenment, Prince Eze Ugochukwu, said that the inspection was to give effect to Governor Hope Uzodimma’s resolve to relocate the NCoS from the chokehold of the city centre near Douglas House.
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Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State on Tuesday flagged-off rural roads project reconstruction in the 27 Local Government Areas with a promise to apply the 3R mantra of rehabilitation, reconstruction and recovery of his administration to the fullest.
He said his plan to recover all broken down infrastructure in Imo State, both at the urban and rural areas remains irrevocable.
Performing the ceremony at the Heroes Square along Concord Avenue, New Owerri, the Governor said that some of the equipment to be put to use were recovered from those who stole them to complement those that were purchased by his administration to ensure maximal effect through the 10 Federal Constituencies of the State.