{"id":15179,"date":"2019-09-07T14:23:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T14:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=15179"},"modified":"2019-09-07T14:23:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T14:23:41","slug":"100-days-in-office-ihedioha-continues-complaints-against-okorocha-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/100-days-in-office-ihedioha-continues-complaints-against-okorocha-govt","title":{"rendered":"100 days in office, Ihedioha continues complaints against Okorocha govt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Imo State<\/a> governor, Emeka Ihedioha, on Friday, continued his complaints about what his predecessor; Rochas Okorocha did or failed to do.<\/p>\n

The governor who spoke at a ceremony in the state to mark his 100 days in office, said he did not only inherited a huge debt from the Okorocha administration, but that the former governor even failed to leave a handover report.<\/p>\n

According to him, there was no handover report due to \u201ca total abuse and neglect of laid down procedures of good governance\u201d by the government of\u00a0Okorocha<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Noting that he inherited N30 billion as a garnishee order and six years\u2019 unpaid pension, the governor said he met a compounded situation with the statutory deduction of almost N1 billion from the state allocation by the Federation Account Allocation Committee.<\/p>\n

The deduction he said, was largely for the repayment of the N26.8 billion bailout package given to the Okorocha administration by the Federal Government.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is important to recall that we took over the reins of government without even a handover report. A handover report, traditionally, is the least responsibility an outgoing administration owes an incoming one. Unfortunately, this was not done.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe discovered upon inception that the inability to provide the necessary documentation was due to a total abuse and neglect of laid down procedures of good governance. The most shocking was the litany of \u2018garnishee absolute orders\u2019 amounting to over N30bn, in addition to six years\u2019 unpaid pension, as well as salary arrears.<\/p>\n

\u201cProjects were poorly conceived, shabbily executed or hastily abandoned. We have even found some of them very hazardous to human safety.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is worthy of note that with our wage bill, at an average of N2.5bn per month, almost N1b monthly pension bill and in an atmosphere of very low IGR leaves very little for development. This is compounded by the almost N1bn statutory deduction on our FAAC, mainly for the repayment of the N26.8bn bailout funds given to the last administration by the FG.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a government that espouses the rule of law, we will never endorse any manifestation of arbitrary powers. As a result, we have set up to two judicial panels of inquiry \u2013 the Judicial Panel of Inquiry into Land Allocation from 2005 to 2019 \u2013 and the Judicial Panel of Inquiry into the Award of Contracts from 2005 to 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have also set up an inquiry into the management of local government finances from 2011 to 2019. These panels are made up of very credible Imo citizens with impeccable track records and we are certain they will give\u00a0Imo people<\/a>\u00a0justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

First 100 days in office, which has become a celebration of some sort among many political office holders in Nigeria is used to highlight what they have been able to achieve within the period.<\/p>\n

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Imo State governor, Emeka Ihedioha, on Friday, continued his complaints about what his predecessor; Rochas Okorocha did or failed to do. 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