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•Governor hosts defence attaches, advisers

Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha yesterday called for the list and identities of Igbo sons and daughters in various prisons and detention facilities across the world.

The governor also requested for the particulars of the offences they committed to enable his administration see if it can play any role to secure their freedom.

He noted that the “possibility of some of them being unjustly imprisoned could not also be ruled out”.


Okorocha spoke in Owerri, the state capital, when he hosted defence advisers and attaches from various countries serving in Nigeria during their visit to the Government House.

Defence Advisers and attaches in attendance were: Brigadier-General Augustine Agundu (Director Foreign Liaison at DIA), Col. Patrick Doyle (U.S.A), Snr. Col. Wang Runxu (China), Col. Thomas Ludulla (Germany), Col. Moussa Labbo (Niger Republic), Commodore Luciano Conegela (Angola), Col. Michael Shatamuka (Zambia), Col. Mark Nuson (Ghana), Col. Kuttche Rogger (Cameroon), Lt.-Col. Daislike Nagatani (Japan), among others.

The governor noted that furnishing his administration with the particulars of such Igbo sons and daughters and the nature of the offences, which warranted their incarceration, would make his administration know the right action to take.

He said: “Many Igbo sons and daughters are languishing in the various prisons of the world with some for obvious reasons and some unlawfully imprisoned. I beg, as a governor of the state, that if you go home, especially those from China, Korea, Turkey and the United States of America (U.S.A) and you facilitate their release, I will be ready to come over and pick them and reintegrate them into our society.

“Imo is where you have the brain box of the nation: the literacy rate is very high here. We are very industrious people; we control the commerce of this nation. You have come to the right place for cultural interaction and exchange. You will meet the right people.

“Often than not, Nigeria receives a misconception and we suffer a very bad image across the world. Yet, this is the place everyone wants to come to. Believe me, among the foreigners who have come to Nigeria, 90 per cent of them don’t normally want to go back. So, the question is: if Nigeria was bad, why are those coming in finding it difficult to go back? I think it is rather what I may call the media misinterpretation and the media war we suffer in this country.


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That's very nice of him.

The Best thing that ever happened to South East

After so many years

Okorocha is the face of new South East

Agu greater than pa Ojukwu

MayorofLagos:
Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha yesterday called for the list and identities of Igbo sons and daughters in various prisons and detention facilities across the world.

The governor said: “Many Igbo sons and daughters are languishing in the various prisons of the world with some for obvious reasons and some unlawfully imprisoned. I beg, as a governor of the state, that if you go home, especially those from China, Korea, Turkey and the United States of America (U.S.A) and you facilitate their release, I will be ready to come over and pick them and reintegrate them into our society.

Your Excellency, this kind of pleading will not make them take you seriously. If you want to show seriousness on this issue, go to their home countries and negotiate with their government.

Asking these diplomats to help facilitate their release sounds like cheap publicity, because by the time they return back to their home countries after their period of duty, your tenure may have ended.

Do you expect them to be running around facilitating release of your countrymen from their prisons when you yourself are here relaxing?

If he is really serious about it, all he needs to do is contact the leadership of the igbo unions in those countries and they will gladly give him the list of those in prisons there!

igbodefender:
Your Excellency, this kind of pleading will not make them take you seriously. If you want to show seriousness on this issue, go to their home countries and negotiate with their government.

Asking these diplomats to help facilitate their release sounds like cheap publicity, because by the time they return back to their home countries after their period of duty, your tenure may have ended.

Do you expect them to be running around facilitating release of your countrymen from their prisons when you yourself are not doing it?

Rochas talked to them in the mindset he will address a Nigerian in political office to "facilitate" release of a prisoner. The offivial will equally call somebody who will call another person and render the favor, and voila...prisoner is released!

We are very democratically backward, and nobody demonstrates it best than our democratically elected officers.

Other countries represented by the diplomats in his audience have a respect and honor for their society and do not interfere in the normal course of a legal process to win favors...never! Im sure they will listen to Rochas and tell him "we will review your request", and head out the door.

Didnt Rochas say he is interested in running for Presidency? Another clueless President in our future polity!

xstry:

Isnt that Dino next to one of his Audis?
Madam Adino...