The former governor of lmo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha has said that the present administration of governor Hope Uzodinma has left the people with itching experiences they won’t forget in a hurry.
A press release signed by Okorocha’s Special Adviser on Media, Sam Onwuemeodo on Friday said, Governor Uzodinma’s administration has been laced with killings which seem to have become a rule.
According to the senator representing Imo west, his 8 years as governor in the state was different from the present administration as he deployed diplomacy in solving problems and didn’t encourage killings.
He said “Imo State and her people have not known peace since Chief Uzodinma became governor. They have only been hearing stories of killings, arson, kidnapping, invasion, rituals. What they never witnessed when the righteous ones were in power or on the throne.
“Governor Uzodinma and his government have become itching experiences Imo people won’t forget in a hurry. The government has made Imo people see their ears with their eyes. And the daily prayer on the lips of every sincere Imo man or woman has been, “may this nauseating cup run over
“During my governorship for 8 years, militancy was a big issue in the oil-producing areas of Ohaji, Egbema and Oguta. I didn’t begin to supervise the killings. As a leader of his people, I employed and deployed diplomacy and got that problem solved.
“But under Governor Uzodinma, the killing of Imo people seems to have become the rule, instead of the exception. And the government is not regretting the killings, but only labouring to justify them.
“Under my administration, the opposition was encouraged to function unhindered. Every part of the state was alive and bubbling. Today, no part of the state is functioning. They are after the opposition. And they are not humble about their cluelessness and ineptitude.”
Responding to the allegation made by the state commissioner for information, Mbadiwe Emelumba, that he killed an 11 year old boy, Somtochukwu, Okorocha said Uzodinma trying to justify the mindless and gruesome murder of innocent youths, men, women, and traditional rulers under his governorship portrays him as one who came to destroy and not to build.
Emelumba had alleged that Okorocha is showing early signs of madness as the blood of Somtochukwu who died during the relocation of EkeUkwu market in Owerri was hunting him.
Okorocha said Uzodinma and his co failed to tell their audience what was the co-relation between the relocation of the Ekeukwu market and the death of the boy.
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