Okorocha offers to render free services to Ihedioha administration

Imo Governor, Rochas Okorocha has offered to render free services to Ihedioha administration to ensure sustenance of free education and other projects in the state. Okorocha also appealed to the state governor-elect, Emeka Ihedioha not to scrap the free education programme and other legacy projects of his administration. Okorocha

This is just as the outgoing governor has advised the new management of the Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport to do all they could to totally free the airport from the activities of touts, stating however that the airport was one of the best in the country where touting was still known to be at its barest minimum. Speaking when the new manager of the airport, Mrs. Rejoice

Ndudinachi, paid him a courtesy call with her management team at the Government House weekend, Okorocha said some of his programmes and projects were the reason there was total peace in the state in the last eight years. His words: “My appeal has remained that there are certain things I would want to remain continued in this administration .

One of them is the free education. I want to appeal to the incoming government in the name of God not to stop free education in this land. Free education represents our indirect empowerment to the widows and the poor in the society. Free education helps children who cannot afford school fees. Free education has helped wipe away the tears of suffering widows. “Free education must never be allowed to stop in this land and if that stops, criminal activities will come back again in geometrical progression and crime rate

will rise and that should not be good for the State. If they do not know how to do it, I will offer my services free of charge to be sure that free education continues in Imo State. And for the peace we are enjoying now to continue, the youths must continue to be made useful”, he stated. He further stated “Another appeal is that all these over 1000 projects I have given to the people of Imo state, the highest in the history of this state, those things must be kept alive and made to continue.

When I see these, I would be the happiest former governor of Imo State, “You can see that since we assumed office in 2011, the story of Imo Airport has changed. We used to have one flight per day when I came in but today, the passenger’s in-flow and out-flow in Owerri is probably the highest in the South-East. And this is because of the developmental strides we have introduced in Imo State, “I intend to write a book one day to explain to the people of Nigeriaand Imo State in particular the vision with which I governed this State. If you should notice, I have opened up Owerri. Owerri is so opened up with road networks everywhere.

There are more developments now in Owerri than it has never been in the past administration . Security is better. So when I said Imo must be better, I meant my word ab initio. In security, Imo is better than it has ever been. The issue of kidnapping is gone”, he stated. On the activities of touts in Sam Mbakwe Airport, the governor however stated that the airport is one of the best in the country where touting is still known to be at its barest minimum.

He added that the idea of making travellers uncomfortable by touts demanding money from them must stop “because when you don’t give them it looks as if you have committed an offence. “Our Cargo Airport is better than all other ones we have in the country because of facilities. Maybe in Lagos, I don’t know how much of cargo shades they have. So, Imo is blessed in this regard and we are hoping to start with MT II or Boeing

727 which has been approved to land in Owerri from outside the country.“I have talked to the management of Customs, and they will soon post people there to help our operations and commence the activities of the cargo airport.

I might not start the flights coming in and going out, but I do hope that the in-coming government should continue from where I stopped. What I am praying now is let there be continuity in Imo as I bow out on 29th May”.

The governor further explained “In terms of infrastructural development, Imo is better. In terms of workers welfare, Imo is better. In terms of health, Imo is better. In terms of education, Imo is better. So Imo is better in all wings.

The secret to all these is that we thought outside the box and being able to do things different from the conventional ways of doing things. This is the result of what you are seeing. my administration was never hard on the people. In fact, Imo state is the place you could come and not pay tax before getting your building on, “So, I’m leaving a better Imo than I met it. The idea of the Imo International Airport was to connect Imo state to the rest of the world.