The Imo State Endless Probe Saga Continues, As Uzodinma orders probe on Ohakim, Okorocha and Ihedioha
The Oasis Reporters
January 18, 2020
In keeping with the grand unsmiling tradition in Imo State politics, the new Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodinma, on Wednesday night, called for the probe of three former governors of the state.
The former governors are Ikedi Ohakim, Rochas Okorocha and Emeka Ihedioha.
Curiously, each governor usually freezes bank transactions, orders a probe on the preceding government and makes grandiloquent statements.
In the end, the probes remain unending while Imo continues to groan. That has been the cycle from Ohakim to Okorocha, then Ihedioha’s six month old government, and now the newly Supreme Court crowned government of Hope Uzodinma.
According to a Punch newspaper report, the new governor who gave the order in his inaugural speech immediately he was sworn in, ordered the Accountant-General of the state to within four days from Wednesday forward to him the comprehensive financial status of the state from May 29, 2010, till date.
He equally ordered all permanent Secretaries of all the ministries in the state to within the same period forward to him the status of all the contracts awarded.
The governor ordered the immediate stoppage of payment of all ongoing contracts in the state.
He said that his administration was anchored on rehabilitation, reconstruction and recovery.
According to him, he would revive the state and make it work again.
Uzodinma said that he had forgiven those he said conspired to “rob me of hard-earned victory”.
He said that the judiciary demonstrated huge bravery by declaring him the duly elected governor of the state.
Uzodinma said that he was dedicating his victory to God, ending a Punch newspaper report.
Uncannily, the anticipated probe has helped in uniting the former governors, once rivals, but bow seemingly united in individual but defiant statements, daring Uzodinma to go ahead and commence his probe. Probe is not such a scary proposition anymore, in Imo State.
