The Governor of Imo State, Emeka
Ihedioha, on Thursday, accused his predecessor, Rochas Okorocha of crippling
the state through “massive looting.”
Ihedioha alleged that Okorocha
looted the state’s purse and left it in a “deep hole of corruption and mindless
misappropriation.”
Addressing Imo State stakeholders
in Owerri, the Governor insisted that his predecessor’s eight years plunged the
state into unsustainable debt.
He said: “Our 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.
“There were last-minute illegal
sales of government property at giveaway prices and unlawful allocation of land
including backdating of Certificates of Occupancy.”
The governor stated that the
state was faced with over N100 billion naira debt with “nothing to show for
it.”
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’s government.
“I 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,” Ihedioha said.
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