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Imo govt accuses Okorocha of inciting youths to destroy state property

Akinwande Soji-Ojo by Akinwande Soji-Ojo
April 10, 2021
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Uzodinma attacking me out of envy, vendetta– Okorocha
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Imo State Government has accused the immediate past government of the state, Rochas Okorocha, of inciting youths to destroy “state property.”

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The state Commissioner for Information, Declan Emelumba, made the allegation in a statement released on Friday.

On Monday, gunmen attacked the correctional centre and the state police command headquarters in Owerri, the state capital.

Over 1,500 prisoners were reportedly freed in the attacks.

The state governor, Hope Uzodinma, blamed politicians for the incidents.

But Okorocha, who represents Imo West in the senate, asked the governor to approach him for counsel rather than politicise the security situation.

“The recent attacks on the police headquarters and the correctional centre in Imo State, the unending herdsmen crises, the banditry, the unending Boko Haram, kidnapping – these are all products of poverty and injustice.

“While I call for peace and understanding, we have a duty as leaders to correct these ugly issues of injustices and poverty which are ravaging the country.

“Whoever is saying politicians are involved is trying to politicize the whole thing. I don’t think that any sane politician will go and ask youths to shoot at the police headquarters and all that,” Okorocha said.

Reacting, the commissioner flayed the Okorocha for blaming the attacks on poverty and injustice, saying the former governor kept the people impoverished during his tenure.

Emelumba said Okorocha has refused to condemn the Imo attacks, adding that the former governor has been inciting northern youths to destroy state property.

“He is reaping political capital over the unfortunate incidents and had even gone ahead to incite northerners against the government and people of Imo State.

“It is a direct slap on the face of Imo people for Okorocha to say that the cause of the security breaches in the state was poverty and injustice when he greatly impoverished Imo people by mindlessly appropriating their commonwealth in a most unjust manner, as established by the judicial commissions of inquiry that investigated his tenure in office.

“Do you know the collateral damage that rascality and indiscretion has cost Ndigbo? As I speak, Northern youths are planning attacks against Igbo property in the North because someone chose to sell out for political patronage.”

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