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GOV OKOROCHA CLEAR ARREARS OF SALARIES OF PARASTATALS & CIVIL SERVANTS UP TO DECEMBER

His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Imo state, Owelle Anayo Rochas Okorocha has approved the payment of all arrears of salaries for all Ministries, Departments, Agencies, all Health Workers, all Local Government Workers and parastatals up to the month of December, 2015 including the following:

1. State Directorate for Employment
2. Niger Delta Affairs
3. Imo Sport Council
4. New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD)
5. Water Corporation
6. Imo Water Development Authority (IWADA)
7. Environmental Transformation Commission (ENTRACO)
8. Imo Broad water Corporation
9. Imo Live Stock
10. Imo Cattle Market
11. Agricultural Loans Board
12. Arts and Culture
13. Imo Blue Lake
14. Imo Tourism Board
15. Imo Job Center
16. Imo PFMU and PSGRDP
17. Imo RUWASSA (UNICEF)
18. Imo Consumer Protection Council (CPC)
19. Imo Marking Company
20. Legal Aid Council
21. Imo State Investment and Promotion Agency (ISIPA)
22. Hospital Management Board
23. Imo Essential Drugs
24. Special Education Center
25. Deaf and Dumb, Orodo
26. Logara Remand Home
27. Poverty Alleviation
28. Zoological Garden
29. Agency for Formal and Non Formal Education
30. Heartland Football Club

All Directors of Accounts are directed to liaise with the Accountant on Thursday 17th December, 2015 for payment.

Please be guided accordingly.

Signed,

Ugwumba Uche Nwosu,
Chief of Staff

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Cultural Carnival

More pictures, Imo Cultural Carnival in preparation for Christmas....

Imo Cultural Carnival.....

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Imo is agog for Christmas.

A trip around Owerri the Imo State capital shows a model - modern city ready to embrace tourists who are coming to see the hospitality, splendor and beauty of the city. It's the Christmas season, already Imo has witnessed Children's carnival, hosting Cultural Carnival today.

Rochas Is Working. ..

His Excellency, the Executive Governor of Imo state, Owelle Anayo Rochas Okorocha has approved the payment of all arrears of salaries for all Ministries, Departments, Agencies, all Health Workers, all Local Government Workers and parastatals up to the month of December, 2015 including the following:

1. State Directorate for Employment
2. Niger Delta Affairs
3. Imo Sport Council
4. New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD)
5. Water Corporation
6. Imo Water Development Authority (IWADA)
7. Environmental Transformation Commission (ENTRACO)
8. Imo Broad water Corporation
9. Imo Live Stock
10. Imo Cattle Market
11. Agricultural Loans Board
12. Arts and Culture
13. Imo Blue Lake
14. Imo Tourism Board
15. Imo Job Center
16. Imo PFMU and PSGRDP
17. Imo RUWASSA (UNICEF)
18. Imo Consumer Protection Council (CPC)
19. Imo Marking Company
20. Legal Aid Council
21. Imo State Investment and Promotion Agency (ISIPA)
22. Hospital Management Board
23. Imo Essential Drugs
24. Special Education Center
25. Deaf and Dumb, Orodo
26. Logara Remand Home
27. Poverty Alleviation
28. Zoological Garden
29. Agency for Formal and Non Formal Education
30. Heartland Football Club

All Directors of Accounts are directed to liaise with the Accountant on Thursday 17th December, 2015 for payment.

Please be guided accordingly.

Signed,

Ugwumba Uche Nwosu,
Chief of Staff

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The Chief of Staff, Hon. Uche Nwosu organised a grand End of the Year Party/Award Ceremony for all the staff of Government House today, at Nicks Banquet Hall, Government House, Owerri.

The Chairman of the organising Committee, Mr. Ik Ogbonna brought together a series of entertaining and exciting presentations that ranged from the outstanding performance by St. Joseph Chaplaincy Choir, Imo State University and the comical display by Mirror of Justice, Terrace Band etc.

Departmental winners were given a plaque & 20,000 naira while all the staff in attendance were entitled to a bag of rice from the Chief of Staff. The Car, keke, motorcycle, deep freezer and plasma TV were received by 5 other winners with joy. Blessing Ogbuehi, a police officer went home with the star price, a brand new Hyundai car also received 1 million naira from the Governor.

His Excellency, Owelle Anayo Rochas Okorocha commended the Chief of Staff for putting together the ceremony and encouraged all staff in Government House to always live up to expectations as they do not know when their prayers will be answered.

Thank you, Gov Okorocha for Rochas Foundation

My Indelible memory lane started far back on 10th October 2005 when I was picked from the street by Dr Rochas Okorocha of IMO state to start a comprehensive free and Qualitative education at Rochas Foundation College Ogboko. I was naive, unsrutinized, unspecialised and unschooled. As the structural struggle for learning kicked off then, I began to see myself in a multidimensional environment of renaissance. I met many specialized educators like Uncle Charles, Uncle prince Onyeka, Aunty franca, Aunty Vivian, uncle Remi, And likes of many who pushed the frontiers of learning in the educational environment. Apart from my venerable teachers, I met many students that teamed up towards overseeing my success in the field of learning. I can't forget the mantra of "Fail and fail out" and "hardwork! hardwork!! hardwork!!!" of our Dad; Owelle Rochas Okorocha which help me so much even up to this moment. Now, I am growing tall, strong and enlightening in the society.
Indeed Politics apart, God, through HE Dr. Rochas Okorocha made it possible. Am proud to be a Rochaite and I must represent the good virtues of Rochas everywhere I go.
To God Be The Glory!!!

His Excellency, Owelle Anayo Rochas Okorocha today, in a meeting with the National Examinations Council (NECO) led by Professor Abdulrashid Garba, met to extend a hand of friendship and solidify the relationship between the council and Imo state Governor and to appreciate the Governor for what he has been doing to the NECO office in the state and at the national level.

According to the NECO Registrar, in 2011, Imo state had 17% Credit in English and Mathematics but today it is 77% due to the vision of Imo State Governor of Free Education in Imo state which has become a reality.

"Your investment in education is yielding the desired results please don't relent"

The Governor advised that English and Mathematics as compulsory subjects for students to pass in order to be admitted into universities be scraped as soon as possible. Gov Okorocha said "if loving education is a crime, let me remain a sinner. Education is a right and not a privilege and must be free, so that children of the poor can go to school"

The delegation commended His Excellency for his efforts towards education in the state and presented him with an award.

The Head of Service, Mr Callistus Ekenze, Mr Ik Ogbonna, SA on ICT to the Governor and many other top government functionaries were in attendance

IMO IMPROVED FROM 17 - 77 % IN NECO EXAMS UNDER GOV OKOROCHA- REGISTRAR

His Excellency, Owelle Anayo Rochas Okorocha today, in a meeting with the National Examinations Council (NECO) led by Professor Abdulrashid Garba, met to extend a hand of friendship and solidify the relationship between the council and Imo state Governor and to appreciate the Governor for what he has been doing to the NECO office in the state and at the national level.

According to the NECO Registrar, in 2011, Imo state had 17% Credit in English and Mathematics but today it is 77% due to the vision of Imo State Governor of Free Education in Imo state which has become a reality.

"Your investment in education is yielding the desired results please don't relent"

The Governor advised that English and Mathematics as compulsory subjects for students to pass in order to be admitted into universities be scraped as soon as possible. Gov Okorocha said "if loving education is a crime, let me remain a sinner. Education is a right and not a privilege and must be free, so that children of the poor can go to school"

The delegation commended His Excellency for his efforts towards education in the state and presented him with an award.

The Head of Service, Mr Callistus Ekenze, and many other top government functionaries were in attendance.

GOVERNOR OKOROCHA DID NOT SPEND N600 MILLION ON XMAS DECORATION

Report of the media attack launched against Governor Okorocha by the former Deputy Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Hon. Emeka Ihedioha is quite an unfortunate one. The report as received, gives everyone who comes across it the impression of comments made by a near frustrated person arising from the loss of an election and refusing to leave with the outcome. In the report credited to Hon. Ihedioha, he accused the state governor, His Excellency, Owelle Rochas Okorocha of spending N600 million on decorations for the Christmas celebration.

It is unfortunate that some politicians do not have "second addresses" and keep themselves busy and seek attention by writing false and unsubstantiated press releases just to gain media attention. They have never been known to have done any work outside politics and find it difficult living outside the pecks of public office and thereby constitute a nuisance to government of the day.

Ordinarily, one could have dismissed the report but with its reportage in a revered newspaper like Vanguard, it should not be taken with a pinch of salt in order not give the slightest impression of an atom of truth in the career politicians claims. It is expedient to categorically state at this time that the Rescue Mission Government under the proactive leadership of His Excellency, Owelle Okorocha could not have even thought of using such amount of money for decoration at this time let alone committing it. That is why the assertion by Ihedioha came as a surprise to the government and also revealed the awkward thought of an unrepentant critic seeking attention desperately. Such thought could only bred in a mind that would have committed such an amount in the project if given the opportunity. However, he may not be blamed out rightly because it is only natural that when a man sees another doing what he could not do, his imagination of what it takes to achieve that goes outside the scope of sound reasoning.

It is a known fact that the executive governor of Imo State has been an astute business man long before he ventured into politics. He knows his where about in anything he wants to do with minimal exoenses. As a man who is exposed and highly connected, he could get the job done in the highest quality and aesthetics yet at the cheapest price. It only takes a sincere man with sense of purpose not to inflate prices even when he knew that it could be justified in the eyes of all considering the size and quality of work done. Hon. Ihedioha simply told the world that if he was to embark on such work, which is obvious he lacks every capacity to do, he would have claimed over N600 million. Unfortunately for him and fortunately for the Imo people, Rochas is above such dishonesty and unpatriotism.

It is no longer news that Gov Okorocha is well known for his frugality and financial discipline. Gov. Okorocha redirected his Security Vote to the development of Imo State and to the Free Education programme of the state when his colleagues still collect same. Glory be to God NECO statistics shows that Imo has moved from 17 to 77 in her examination from 2011 to 2015.

In his frugality as an administrator, Gov. Okorocha has so managed the state that he is achieving a lot with little state allocations. Recently too, he reduced the number of the state ministries from 22 to 13. Another display of wisdom and managerial skill. Most projects on the state are constructed through direct labour, another move that has saved money for the state.

The principal offence of Governor Rochas Okorocha is not Sharing The Money to elites he prefers pro masses policies that touch the poor, suffering, weak and less privileged ones in the state. This is the reason why no known politician that fed fat from our collective patrimony supported the Governor in 2011 and 2015 elections. The Governor is at home with the masses who he is more comfortable with.

It is important to state at this point that His Excellency’s interest is on giving the state the best at any time hence, his constant efforts to make Christmas celebration in Imo State memorable. This has made Imo a tourist destination during the Christmas season and beyond. Imo now has water fountains and a flyover near completion first in her history. It may also interest the ex-honourable member to know that the Christmas trees, flowers and lights are leftovers gathered from previous years being used currently just to ensure that Imo state glows more than other states during this yuletide season and save money for the state.

For the sake of emphasis, the Rescue Mission Government of His Excellency, Owelle Rochas Okorocha did not spend N600 million for decoration as speculated.

Ik Ogbonna, anipr
Special Assistant to the Imo State Governor on Information & Communications Technology, ICT.

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Free Education at all levels. Free uniforms, locker, sandals, etc

State of the Art Health Care System....

Interior of Imo International Convention Center....

Imo Carnival started last year under Owelle. 2015 Carnival begins next week...

Film makers now visit Owerri Regularly to shoot movies....

More pictures of Nneoma Nkechi Rochas Okorocha......

With a supportive wife that has built over 150 houses for widows in the state Under her She Needs A Roof Project, SNARP

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Trade and Investment Center - interior
Sam Mbakwe House in Abuja built by Gov. Rochas Okorocha

Imo Trade and Investment center, a building for investors to meet local business men

Avutu Poultry built by late Mbakwe but abandoned by previous regime is back on track.

Foreign Investors now visit Imo on Daily Basis

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Centenary square
Freedom square

Imo First Flyover, near completion.

Inside of the Newly Renovated Concorde Hotel, now 5 Star status.

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Gov. Rochas Okorocha
Assumpta Roundabout
Imo International Convention Center
Night view of Government House.