{"id":136751,"date":"2019-07-18T19:50:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T18:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=136751"},"modified":"2019-07-18T19:51:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T18:51:17","slug":"how-okorocha-crippled-imo-for-eight-years-gov-ihedioha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=136751","title":{"rendered":"How Okorocha crippled Imo for eight years – Gov. Ihedioha"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha, on Thursday, accused his predecessor, Rochas Okorocha of crippling the state through \u201cmassive looting.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ihedioha alleged that Okorocha looted the state\u2019s purse and left it in a \u201cdeep hole of corruption and mindless misappropriation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Addressing Imo State stakeholders in Owerri, the Governor insisted that his predecessor\u2019s eight years plunged the state into unsustainable debt.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cOur interim findings show a consistent pattern of massive looting and stripping of public assets, dismantling and carting away of public property such as electric poles, vehicles, trucks, office equipment and furniture etc.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were last-minute illegal sales of government property at giveaway prices and unlawful allocation of land including backdating of Certificates of Occupancy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The governor stated that the state was faced with over N100 billion naira debt with \u201cnothing to show for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Disclosing that the state government has received over 30 billion Naira worth of Garnishee Orders from contractors, the Imo State governor said the contracts were fraudulently awarded by Okorocha\u2019s government.<\/p>\n

\u201cI must inform you in this regard that, so far we have received over 30 billion Naira worth of Garnishee Orders arising from several ill-conceived and fraudulent contractual agreements deliberately consummated by the past administration, to destroy the future of the State and its teeming population by fettering the State in a humongous debt trap,\u201d Ihedioha said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Governor of Imo State, Emeka Ihedioha, on Thursday, accused his predecessor, Rochas Okorocha of crippling the state through \u201cmassive looting.\u201d Ihedioha alleged that Okorocha looted the state\u2019s purse and left it in a \u201cdeep hole of corruption and mindless misappropriation.\u201d Addressing Imo State stakeholders in Owerri, the Governor insisted that his predecessor\u2019s eight years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":130586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5601,723],"class_list":["post-136751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-emeka-ihedioha","tag-rochas-okorocha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}