United Nations Extols Ohakim

Imo State governor, Chief Ikedi Ohakim has bagged another honour, this time by
the United Nations Association of Nigeria.

The body said it honoured the governor because he has been able to distil the
very essence for which the United Nations Organization (UNO) was set up soon
after the Second World War and had brought to bear on his practice and approach
to governance.

In a release made available to STATESMAN in Owerri, signed by South East zonal
chairman of the organization, Barr. Igwe Emmanuel Chinedu said the governor's
achievements were amply demonstrated in the prompt eagerness with which the
Ikedi Ohakim led-administration had paid counter-part funding for the
developmental programmes of the United Nations Organization.

"A part from consistently presenting the state budget and draft estimates
punctually on schedule as required by the rules of the Millennium Development
Goals

Barr. Igwe who doubles as the state chairman of the organization, pointed out
some of the governor's achievements to include "the near magical transformation
of Owerri to a clean and filth free environment, free from the rubbish heaps
that littered its streets four years ago.

"The replacement in metropolitan Owerri of the accident prone motorcycle, with
the much safer tricycle, in total defiance of the then conventional political
convenience of pandering to the whims and caprices of the commercial
motorcyclists union.

"The singular effort the governor made to combat kidnapping when compared to the
reality in Abia, Rivers and Anambra and other neighbouring states, thus ensuring
relative peace and security with which no meaningful development programs can be
executed."

The body also mentioned the governor’s disbursement of substantial soft loans to
youth and farmers for agricultural and human capital development, as well as
opening up of hinterland through the integrated rural development agency, as
some of the laudable programs of governance for which the organization decided
to honour the governor."

The organization urged all those involved in the governance at all levels of the
nation to emulate the worthy efforts of this young and dynamic governor, for the
overall development of the country and her people.'

omg. . . source? or more propaganda?