Congratulation Owelle Rochas Okorocha on your victory at the polls.

Now that you have been sworn in as the executive governor of Imo State, you have a very rare opportunity to prove to the Imo people and indeed Nigerians that you are really on a rescue mission. Your dissolution of the LG chairmen and the council of traditional rulers was a welcome development as long as what you have in mind is to conduct a free and fair election that would bring credible leaders to power. However, your suspension of the 10,000 jobs created by your predecessor is not a welcome development. Instead of suspending the whole thing, what you should have done is to create even more productive jobs that would surpass that of your predecessor. A lot of people in Imo State are jobless and they are looking up to you as the head of the government to give them direction. Are you going to disappoint them? Of course not. That is not in line with your rescue mission. Come up with workable ideas of how to create productive jobs for the people of Imo State.

Don't tell me that Imo has no money to pay such employees, that is why you have to make them productive. Not the kind of unproductive civil servants we have today who just come to the office everyday and do nothing but gossip till they closing hours. Then at the end of the month they expect to be paid a minimum wage of N18,000 for producing nothing. don't be fooled by those clamoring for minimum wage. That was a wrong step in the right direction- It is the right direction for a workers salary to be increased, but a wrong step to announce it to the whole world. In the you will harvest nothing but Inflation that would bring everybody to square one.

On the issue of how to create productive jobs, I advice you to learn from the former governor of Kwara state, Bukola Saraki. See what he did in agriculture and find out how many jobs he was able to create. Of course such jobs must not depend on Federal allocations to pay the employees, the agricultural produce from there will surely bring in enough revenue to take care of the employees. What Bukola Saraki did may not be perfect, so you may need to review it and improve on his mistakes. This would definitely be a right a right step in the right direction.

On the other hand, I hear about the National Directorate of Employment (NDE). What happened to it? Why is it that our youths are not going there to acquire skills. It may also be necessary for you to review that scheme and find out how to improve on it so that the youths of Imo can be trained on different useful skills and be empowered to become self employed. You can call it Imo State Directorate of Employment(ISDE) or whatever you may choose. And make it compulsory for every able bodied youth who is not employed to acquire useful skills.

Long live Owelle Rochas Okorocha
Long live Imo State
Long live the Igbo people
Long live Nigeria

Mr. O.M. Uche
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