The Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha has unveiled the statue built in honor of visiting Liberian president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

Although, while appreciating the gesture of the state governor, the Liberian president said she has never received such an honor.

According to her, she has a statue in her alma mater, Harvard University, but the size of the statue cannot be compared to the one built by the Rochas Okorocha administration.

Shortly after unveiling the statue of the Liberian President, Rochas Okorocha was asked by a journalist why he is building statues and he replied:

“To immortalize people so our children yet unborn can read a piece of them. History is dying in Africa. We must keep history alive. In the next 100 years to come, most of us will not be here but this will stand for children to read stories and mold their character. If leaders are not mortalized, there will not be history for children yet unborn’.
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Story 4 d gods

Statues that will be destroyed the next Government na him be lasting legacy? abeg commot for road joor.

This he actually say this

Aahh... If he did then something must be wrong with him.
U are owing salaries, yet using imo state money to build statues of people who are not Nigerians, not to talk of them being from IMO state.. U are immortalizing them for our future generation eeh?... Mr gov. what good have they done Nigeria??

His reason is too unreasonable.

candlewax:
how will it stand for the next 100years？ A new government will come within the next 20years and destroy them because its of no use and benefit to the masses

Augustap

Not even a new government. Rochas will demolish it to "widen" the roads. He has been doing that to some of his constructions

This guy fit don hide money inside those statues o

When is he building his own statue?