A socio-political group, G42 Imo Liberation Forum, has warned the Okorocha government to desist from “waste of tax payers’ money”.

The group said it received information that the administration is set to spend N850m on erecting a tree ahead of Christmas celebration.

Okorocha was recently criticised by Nigerians for erecting a statue of South Africa president Jacob Zuma, in Owerri.

In a statement on Saturday by G42 Director of Communications, Dr. Walter Duru, the forum described the alleged plan as misplaced priority and a sign of government’s insensitivity.

It read: “The attention of G-42 Imo Liberation Forum has been drawn to an alleged plan by the Imo State Government under the leadership of Chief Rochas Okorocha to spend about Eight Hundred and Fifty Million Naira on a meaningless tree ahead of the 2017 Christmas celebration.”

“This is coming at a time Civil Servants and Pensioners in the state are being owed several months arrears of salary and other entitlements; while poverty is at its highest level in the history of the state.

“The situation is made worst by the fact that the dust raised by the over Five Hundred Million Naira allegedly spent in the building of a Statue for the President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma is yet to settle.

“We refuse to treat this as mere speculation as history has shown that this is not far from the style of the present administration in the state; a government that is not accountable to anyone and is run in utmost secrecy.

“The government must tell Imo people how much it actually spent on erecting the ridiculous Jacob Zuma Statue and others there-in, as well as the said Christmas tree.

“The G-42 Imo Liberation Forum, a Socio-political group in the state sees this as the highest level of insensitivity, misplaced priority and share waste of the people’s resources and hereby condemn it.”

“The present APC-led government must realize that it is holding the people’s resources on thrust and therefore accountable to the people. This administration has treated Imo people with so much disrespect and disdain that we can no longer fold our arms to allow this anomaly to continue.”

“We therefore call on the state government to discontinue the wanton waste of the peoples’ resources and invest in areas that are beneficial to majority of the citizens.”

http://www.mcebisco.com.ng/2017/11/okorocha-set-to-spend-n850m-on.html

Well.. Even if its a lie, I will still believe

Who can link me up? It won't be bad if LadyF gets the contract o, I go do you well

Someone who wasted tax payers money to erect a statue for a failed president of another can do more than this

Clown on Okorocha. I like your ineptitude

Okoro awusa and misplaced priorities. Ndi gbo I salute your patience. God will see you through from the menace called governor.

Imo people don buy market

Just N850 million? That's too cheap for a Christmas tree na. Imo people should be happy that their governor is even celebrating the yuletide for them with a monument, and learn to stop complaining over every small misconception.

That is almost same amount expended on same tree last year in same state. Imolites, merry Xmas in advance.

no b dis same man spend d same amount on Christmas tree last year
aswear if dat foolish man b my governor i go just arrange like 50 girls to gang rape am nd make it look like an accident.
or just simply rent dat ghost wey dey slap am dat time

Christmas tree, imo indigenes should get used to it.

after una go say him na Muslim.

No be new thing, last time na 600m


That man is a waste

These PDP idiiots should keep deceiving themselves with their manufactured figures but fortunately for Imolites they will never smell power again in Imo State. Whoever believed in the past figures of 600 million or this latest one of 850 is demented and whoever still believes Zuma statue cost 500 million needs brain surgery.