– Expresses Disappointment
Imolites For Good Governance (IFGG) an accountability advocacy group, has once again expressed disappointment over Governor Hope Uzodinma’s refusal to fulfill his promise of securing overseas jobs for 4000 Imo youths who he said would be gainfully employed in America and the United Kingdom before the end of his first tenure.
The Coordinator of the group, Comrade Gideon Nwadialu, while speaking to our reporter yesterday said, “it is regrettable that Governor Uzodinma, has uptill date, not deemed it necessary to fulfill a promise he made before Imo people, for which most of them decided to vote for his re-election.
“Aside not fulfilling the promise Governor Uzodinma has not built a single factory or initiated any project that has the capacity to employ one hundred Imo youths despite the humongous amounts that have accrued to the state from local government allocations, thirteen percent derivation and other sources in the past 6 years or thereabout. Rather, he and his spokespersons have continued to deceive Imo people with rhetorics and puerile propaganda.
“IFGG had, on several occasions, reminded the governor of the need to fulfill his promise which is more like a policy statement but he has consistently played it down. It is very unfortunate that a person who occupies such an exalted office would resort to making such unfulfilled promises publicly”.
The group also expressed dismay over the recent pronouncement by the Bureau of Statistics that Imo State is the headquarters of unemployment. “We are surprised that such damning report that should propel the government into action was treated with levity. Hence, the Hope Uzodinma administration has continued to unleash poverty, lack and deprivation on the people, especially the civil servants, most of whom are still owed several months arrears of salaries, pensions and other entitlements.
“To worsen the situation, he gave a non civil servant, who is his kinsman the responsibility of paying salaries and pensions of workers in the state, including chairmen of Local Government Areas and their Councillors”.
The group also took a swipe at the current administration in the state for its inability to build a single cottage industry,
“It is regrettable that the Hope Uzodinma-led APC administration in the state is more interested in theatrics. That is why the government keeps projecting images that are not in tandem with the situation of things in the state.
We therefore call on Governor Hope Uzodinma to, as a matter of urgency, fulfill his promise of sending 4000 Imo youths to Europe and the United Kingdom, where they will, according to him, be gainfully employed. Anything short of this would be seen as fraudulently deceitful.”
