BREAKING News:

Okorocha Stopped From Presenting 2014 Budget By Lawmakers Till He Accounts For Abandoned Projects.

For not implementing 2013 Budget, Imo state Law Makers have stopped Governor Rochas Okorocha from presenting 2014 Budget proposal. The lawmakers Listed some of the of PROJECTS captured in 2013 that was never Executed, but funds were released to Contractors as below;

1) 10 INDUSTRIES in the state at the cost of N15billion each.

2) Construction of new city gates also valued at N15bn, not the Two gates constructed in 2012.

3) Completion of 27 New Generals valued at 15 billion.

4) 304 Model Primary Schools valued at 20 Billion.
The Agreement between ROCHE group managing ADAPALM and the IMO govt. The initial agreement was that all proceeds from ADAPALM would be used to construct the 304 Schools. (We wounder why the project was still captured in the Budget - 2 funding for a project unexecuted).

4) Construction of 100 Secondary Schools.

5) N15 Billion earmarked for Construction of Buildings at IMSU permanent site.

6) The much touted Princes and Crystal Hotels for Okigwe and Orlu Zones respectively, Ecumenical Centre known as Amarachi and Magnificent Towers (Akachi), Monumental Hotels projects for which the N29 billion was earmarked have been abandoned and contractors eloped after collecting about 70% of the contract sum for one of the legacy prospects.

7) Abandonment of Projects eg The one at Ama JK called Heartland Centre for multi-level car parks, where the contractor also allegedly disappeared after getting mobilization fund of about N3bn.

The law makers have sworn not to Allow the Governor Present the 2014 Budget until he provides evidence that the 2013 Budget was fully implemented.

http://www.imotrumpeta.com/?p=10397

i use to support rochas, but i dont know what is happening anymor in imo state. please imolite educate us.

If he hasn't provided proof that the 2013 have been implemented,he should provide it and save us the drama.

how can you use facebook photo by a group of confused biafrans [s][/s]Nigerians as source.

berem: If he hasn't provided proof that the 2013 have been implemented,he should provide it and save us the drama.

okay. but we nid pictures as a prove.

Can the National Assembly do this same thing to the central government? Our leaders should be made to account for every kobo they spend per year,not just to be presenting budget every year with little or nothing to show for it.

Owk...datz good

muktarl:

okay. but we nid pictures as a prove.

pictures to prove what?

Source: FACEBOOK Maybe Ndigbo Page! Hmmmmmm garbage news! Owelle Nno Your enemy are not resting at all

The war against Rochas Okorocha
on march 18, 2013 at 1:16 am
THE impetus for this essay rests on the contents  of the front-page news-story in the Daily Sun of Friday, March 8, 2013 entitled, “Imo: APGA unveils plot to sack Okorocha,   Speaker”. According to this news report, the ImoState chapter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has alleged a plot by the Presidency and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to sack the Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha and to distort the activities of the Imo State House of Assembly.
The impeachment moves against Okorocha and the Speaker are allegedly geared towards derailing the on-going investigation by the state legislature over allegations of financial gratification leveled against the Deputy Governor, Jude Agbaso, by one of the major contractors handling the state government road projects.
The issue here is not about the efficacy of the news report  on the on-going plans to remove Governor Okorocha and the Speaker of the state legislature, Ben Uwajumogu, from office. What is happening now as alleged by the Imo State chapter of APGA is just a new but little addition to a major and unfolding impeachment scheme that started in 2012.
The main scheme remains the reported design of using the services of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, by some of the forces rooting for the realisation of the second term ambition of Mr. President to manipulate members of the Imo State House of assembly into removing both Governor Okorocha and Uwajumogu, the Speaker of the Imo State legislative house, from office. Of course, the thinking is rife that without the arrest, prosecution and possible imprisonment of Uwajumogu, on alleged charges of road contract scams, the removal of Governor Okorocha from office will be a pipe dream.
The general thinking  in the political circles that matter at Abuja is that Governor Okorocha remains a major stumbling block that must be removed if Mr. President is to realise his second term ambition in 2015. This thinking is predicated on two grounds.
The first is that Governor Okorocha’s presumed presidential ambition or support for any of the opposition presidential candidates in 2015, will dim Jonathan’s chances of realising his second term ambition, especially given the demonstrated strength of the Igbo bloc vote in such an election. The second is that even if Governor Okorocha decides not to contest the next presidential or gubernatorial election, his achievements (sacrifice of security vote, prompt payment of workers’ salaries, free education at all levels, massive road development, etc) will rubbish the performance profile of the PDP at both the state and federal levels to the extent that Mr. President’s so-called achievements will count for nothing in determining the outcome of the 2015 elections. So, head or tail, Okorocha has been marked for political destruction.
The first dimension of the plot to remove Governor Okorocha from office started many months ago with the use of the media to rubbish the hard-earned and upwardly mobile reputation of the Imo State Government, and also to project the Governor as a person whose style of governance, as well as entrepreneurship and philanthropy as a private citizen, is based on fraud and duplicitous behaviour.
The basic aim here has been the use of the media to attire the Governor in the garb of a confused, dictatorial and under-performing public official so as to gradually replace the genuine songs of praise and the goodwill of millions of people who have benefited from the graceful personality of Owelle Rochas Okorocha as a public or private citizen, with questions of, or doubts about, his sincerity, uprightness, visionary  goals and capacity to develop Imo State. Some of the moles and fifth columnists in the Imo State Government, including a few commissioners, special advisers and other personal aides, have continued to stall all efforts aimed at redressing the bad media image, for instance, of Governor Okorocha and his programmes.
THE second dimension of this plot started last year even before the Sunday Punch report of January 6, 2013 revealed Governor Okorocha as one of the eight governors being discreetly investigated by the EFCC over fraud-related activities. Since September 2012, the EFCC has reportedly been on a surreptitious investigation of Governor Okorocha’s management of the public funds of ImoState, especially as it relates to the disbursement of Imo State Local Government funds, the N47 billion loan from the banks and the N13.3 billion Imo Bond fund.
The climax of this aspect of the plot was the arrest and detention of the Imo State Commissioner for Finance and the Accountant-General of the State by the EFCC. Of course, the unending trips to Abuja by these two officials, after they were granted administrative bail by the EFCC, are expected, in the long run, to lead to the exposure of Governor Okorocha’s imagined financial misdeeds, as well as paint him in the colours  of a corrupt public official that is ripe for impeachment.
The third dimension of the plot started some weeks ago when operatives of the EFCC stormed the Imo State House of Assembly but failed to arrest the Speaker, Deputy Speaker and some other members of the legislative house. The EFCC raid, which was supposed to kick-start the plot to remove Governor Rochas from office, ended up with the arrest of the Clerk of the Imo State House of Assembly, Chris Duru.
The failed attempt to arrest members of the Imo State House of Assembly by the EFCC, on the ground that Governor Okorocha took loans without the approval of the same ImoState lawmakers, appears to be a ruse to get them into EFCC custody.
However, once inside the detention cells of the EFCC at Abuja, the arrested ImoState legislators are expected to be persuasively compromised or coercively intimidated into commencing impeachment proceedings against Governor Okorocha. The use of the EFCC, especially during the Nuhu Ribadu era, to illegally and unconstitutionally impeach some state governors to the sadistic pleasure of General Olusegun Obasanjo, may be in the offing for Okorocha as a veritable means of realising the second term ambition of President Jonathan.
As the Igbo will say, “it is only a tree that will hear of a plan to cut it down and will do nothing to avert the event”. The design to remove Governor Okorocha and Speaker Uwajumogu from office is now stale news. The news reports, especially in the Sunday Punch of January 6, 2013, and the Daily Sun of Friday, March 8, 2013, have dutifully informed the public about the alleged plans by some forces in the Presidency and the PDP, including some fifth columnists in the Imo  State Government, to realise the political destruction of Governor Okorocha and Uwajumogu.
The pertinent question remains: What is to be done to undermine the intended plot to remove Okorocha and Uwajumogu from office? Of course, there are some well-articulated thought processes and strategies (information gathering/analysis, performance profile assessment, media projection/response and court cases, etc) which implementation have the capacity to stem the intended impeachment moves against Governor Okorocha and Hon. Uwajumogu, the Speaker of Imo State House of Assembly.
The immediate critical endeavours to stem the purported impeachment moves against Okorocha and Uwajumogu must include the following action plans. The first is that Governor Okorocha must set up an Information Gathering and Analysis Centre, IGAC,  whose personnel will deploy the services of cultivated contacts in the Presidency, the PDP, the anti-corruption agencies, the Imo State Government offices and parastatals, to discreetly collate information on the continuously evolving plans and strategies aimed at removing his good-self from office or down-playing his achievements as the governor of Imo State.
The second is the setting up of an Imo State Government Strategy Committee, a kind of think-tank, that will not only appraise issues and challenges of governance as they manifest in Imo State and suggest solutions, but will also be executing periodic assessment actions on the performance profile of commissioners, special advisers and heads of government parastatals to ensure that their activities do not undermine the realisation of government’s developmental goals. Nobody from the executive arm of government should be a member of this committee, because no useful purpose will be served by allowing commissioners, advisers, etc, to appraise their own performance.
Other issues to be urgently addressed border on judicial actions. The Governor should ensure that the Imo State Government institutes a court case challenging the powers of the EFCC to pry into its books and public accounts in the name of fighting the corruption war in Nigeria.
This is against the background that the activities of the EFCC in Imo State undermine the constitutional powers of the Auditor-General of the State and that of the Imo State House of Assembly, guaranteed in sections 125 (2), 128 and 129 (1) of the 1999 constitution (as amended).
As a matter of fact, the Imo State Government should sue the EFCC for damages for illegally and unconstitutionally presenting its chief executive (Gov. Rochas Okorocha) to the Nigerian public and the international community, as a corrupt public official when no report from the Auditor-General of Imo State or the Imo State House of Assembly has indicted him for corrupt practices or the mismanagement of public funds.
The court judgement restraining the EFCC from arresting and prosecuting Dr. Peter Odili over his mismanagement of the public funds of RiversState between 1999 and 2007 validates the points canvassed in this discourse.
BY NKEMJIKA is the Chairman of Mezie Ala-Igbo Foundation.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/03/the-war-against-rochas-okorocha/

One problem that Rochas has had to deal with is the encumbering of himself like an ant with unbearable loads. Rochas seems to be a very sterling performer to my brothers and friends in Lagos and Ibadan who have not seen the Head bridge except of paper and tv. Rochas in so incorrigible and lordly. He has not demonstrated so much sincerity and transparency. He'll only make a perfect showman than a public servant. However, in all sincerity, I wont say he's a total failure yet. Only that he's far less than what people in Lagos think he is.

Rochas is it true

Just like his Ekiti counterpart, I don't see this clown retaining that seat or delivering the State to his foolish party APC come 2015

^^^^^^
You may have to do the needful when APC win the Ekiti 2014 election
I mean
May be you will
Go and Die

Did I just read that he wants to build 'City Gate' for #15bn? Abi, is my eyes deceiving me? Shebi, when it was rumoured that d FG was going to build a 'City Gate' in Abuja for #7billion, all d pathetic APC e-rats went into overdrive. Now, na one of dier own: SILENCE..#bladdiHYPOCRITES

Anyone notice how all his projects are 15 billion? hmmmmm! This Okorocha is a trader!

And 15 billion for City Gates in Imo state! Okorocha don finish Imo people walahi!

1MCN: One problem that Rochas has had to deal with is the encumbering of himself like an ant with unbearable loads. Rochas seems to be a very sterling performer to my brothers and friends in Lagos and Ibadan who have not seen the Head bridge except of paper and tv. Rochas in so incorrigible and lordly. He has not demonstrated so much sincerity and transparency. He'll only make a perfect showman than a public servant. However, in all sincerity, I wont say he's a total failure yet. Only that he's far less than what people in Lagos think he is.

Mallam Rochas Okorocha was not, is not and will never be a performer. The dude is a diabolical cultist, 419er, a deceit and political tout. He perfected his skills of deception in the northern region of Nigeria hence he exploited the weakness found in Igbo society today via importation of counterculture. I have never known Igbo man to be bought over through cheap but free handouts.

When men were men in Igbo land, if a person showers you with unexpected and unsolicited gifts, questions are asked what prompted such gifts. If there were no logical answers to such questions, the gifts are returned impromptu.

It is unfortunate this is no longer the case in today’s Igbo land where receivers of such diabolical gifts will dance to the church, offer thanks to God and shouts that the giver of such gift is a kind-hearted man or woman.

He collected blood money and then embarked on idiotic philanthropy in certain sections of the Nigeria with his crocked eyes on two prices, presidency and governorship. Why would anybody surprised at the political shenanigans played out in Imo State by the Mallam when he has changed political parties 11 times in five years?

theoctopus: Anyone notice how all his projects are 15 billion? hmmmmm! This Okorocha is a trader!

And 15 billion for City Gates in Imo state! Okorocha don finish Imo people walahi!

My Bruda, na wa...

DerideGull:


Mallam Rochas Okorocha was not, is not and will never be a performer. The dude is a diabolical cultist, 419er, a deceit and political tout. He perfected his skills of deception in the northern region of Nigeria hence he exploited the weakness found in Igbo society today via importation of counterculture. I have never known Igbo man to be bought over through cheap but free handouts.

When men were men in Igbo land, if a person showers you with unexpected and unsolicited gifts, questions are asked what prompted such gifts. If there were no logical answers to such questions, the gifts are returned impromptu.

It is unfortunate this is no longer the case in today’s Igbo land where receivers of such diabolical gifts will dance to the church, offer thanks to God and shouts that the giver of such gift is a kind-hearted man or woman.

He collected blood money and then embarked on idiotic philanthropy in certain sections of the Nigeria with his crocked eyes on two prices, presidency and governorship. Why would anybody surprised at the political shenanigans played out in Imo State by the Mallam[b] when he has changed political parties 11 times in five years? [/b]

i am not sure about the highlighted. pls clarify.

muktarl:


i am not sure about the highlighted. pls clarify.

It is the essence of my post. We must know a little bit about the social and political life history of a person canvassing for our votes. Mallam Rochas Okorocha started life with PDP went though ANPP, PDP, AA, PDP, LP, APGA and now APC. If these were jail terms, Mallam Rochas Okorocha's middle name would have been "JailBird"

tomakint: Just like his Ekiti counterpart, I don't see this clown retaining that seat or delivering the State to his foolish party APC come 2015

i just hope you won't " go and die " after INEC would have declare them WINNER while your loving GEJ continue enjoying himself.
Ok sha lets wait till 2014 for Ekiti, then You and I will see who WINS.
@topic, if dat can be done from federal to state, i believe Nigeria will be at the top.

Danhumprey: Can the National Assembly do this same thing to the central government? Our leaders should be made to account for every kobo they spend per year,not just to be presenting budget every year with little or nothing to show for it.

when you any lawmaker especial if he is from the north or south west he must be asking question because GEJ is not yaruba or hausa

Some few days ago on nta where he was making "donation" to workers for christmas. I was saying wow i envied imolites but wit this discovery am like what? So all those na show not having substance?

Danhumprey: Can the National Assembly do this same thing to the central government? Our leaders should be made to account for every kobo they spend per year,not just to be presenting budget every year with little or nothing to show for it.

i believe it will cos the executive to seat up.

The site for Prince Hotel Orlu, was cleared 2 years back. BUT ONLY OVER-GROWN WEEDS AND THE FOUNDATION STONE LAID BY SPEAKER UWAJIMOGU CONSTITUTE PRINCE HOTEL, ORLU, TODAY. TO BE FAIR, CONSTRUCTION OF PRINCESS HOTEL OKIGWE IS ONGOING.

A SIX LANE ROAD PROPOSED BY OKOROCHA GOVT TO PASS NEAR THE PRINCE HOTEL IN ORLU WAS AWARDED TO TIMIK CONSTRUCTION LTD. TIMIK WAS FINANCIALLY MOBILIZED, IT SCRAPPED TWO SIDES OF THE OLD ROAD; TIMIK HAS SINCE DISAPPEARED FROM THE SCENE.

Ehem, FRIENDS OF OKOROCHA,
PLS TELL HIM THAT IF THE PRINCE HOTEL IS NOT BUILT BEFORE THE NEXT ELECTIONS, IT IS NOT PDP THAT WILL SACK OKOROCHA, BUT THE PEOPLE OF ORLU WHO GAVE HIM HIGHEST SUPPORT AND VOTES IN 2011 SHALL SACK HIM FROM POLITICS. THIS IS A PLEDGE.

I have always said that Imo people need to be rescued from the so-called rescue mission. I live and work in Imo state and for me, it has always been the more you look, the less you see right from the first month of this present administration. Chukwu Abiama will never allow this evil to swallow up the heartland state and her people.