Uzodinma Wasted N175b In 7 Months – Imo PDP

By Chuks Ekpeneru

Allegations and counter allegation of mismanagement of state resources has continued in Imo State with the Hope Uzodinma administration being accused of mismanaging about N175.7 billion which accrued to the state in seven months.

The allegation came a day after the two immediate past governors of the state, Senator Rochas Okorocha and Hon. Emeka Ihedioha where indicted by a panel investigating the financial activities of the Local Government Areas.

The panel set up by Governor Hope Uzodinma noted that N141 billion was spent on frivolous projects between 2011 and 2019 in the council areas of the State.

In his response, state chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Martin Ejiogu during a press conference in Owerri yesterday hit back at Uzodinma.

According to Ejiogu, “from our investigations and findings, this regime has received the total sum of N175.7 billion as a combination of revenue from the federation account for the state and local governments, as loans borrowed by the regime so far, as savings from ghost workers and pensioners uncovered by this regime, and as internally generated revenue by this regime.

“The point of worry is that much as the N175.7 billion revenue accrued to Imo State within the seven months of this is now known, the whereabouts of that Imo money is not known. It is not clear whether the money has been utilised.”

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