Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo
State has announced that his administration will soon begin to demand the
Permanent Voters’ Card from indigenes of the state as a condition to engage in
certain socio-economic activities, such as salary payment and admission into
schools.
The governor said this while
addressing journalists at the Government House, Owerri, on Saturday.
According to him, the
non-challant attitude, exhibited by indigenes of the state to the collection of
their PVCs, had made it necessary for the government to adopt certain measures
to effect a change.
He said, “The government is going
to initiate the policy of ‘operation-show-your-PVC’ before you can enter the
market to buy or sell and before you can do business or get anything from the
government, and before your child can be admitted into schools.
“Even before workers receive
their salaries from the government, they must show their PVC. We cannot allow
the I-don’t-care-attitude of our people towards the exercise to continue
unchecked.”
The governor further decried that
many Imo indigenes were not interested in getting their PVCs, which would
qualify them to play a key role in electing deserving representatives and
leaders of their choice and also enable them to contribute their quota towards
strengthening the state.
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