Why Uzodinma Took Royal Palm From Okorocha

Governor Hope Uzodinma has given reason for the state government’s decision to take over the Royal Spring Estate believed to have been acquired by the penultimate governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha. Uzodinma took Royal Palm from Okorocha in accordance to the recommendations of a probe initiated by his predecessor, Emeka Ihedioha, a state government bulletin disclosed.

Giving vent to the resolution of the state government on Friday, the bulletin said:

“The Imo State Government today has recovered the Royal Palm Estate along Akachi road in compliance with the directive of the Imo state gazette on the report of the Judicial Commission of Enquiry on recovery of Lands and other related matters.

“This is as a result of the recommendation of the commission that all illegal lands and structures acquired by the administrations between 2006-2019.

“The present administration is therefore not resting on its oars in recovering all the stolen properties of the state especially those carted away by the previous administration and in line with the 3R mantra initiative of Gov. Hope Uzodimma, the state must continue to work in line with the relevant laws and recommendations of government agencies and commissions no matter whose ox is gored.

Explaining further why Uzodinma took the Royal Palm from Okorocha, the bulletin said:

“You may recall that the Judicial Commission of Enquiry on Recovery of Lands and Other Related Matters was one out of the many panels constituted by the Emeka Ihedioha’s administration which Gov. Hope Uzodimma has demonstrated high sense of political maturity and playing above party politics to allow the panels work and adopt their recommendations.”

Besides the Royal Spring Estate, the Uzodinma administration had a week earlier, recovered the Eastern Palm University from Okorocha saying that the former governor did not have any claim to the university.

Okorocha had at that time vowed to resist the Uzodinma government asserting that the administration erred in its action.

The Uzodinma government had on its part reacted by saying that Okorocha had pleaded with Governor Uzodinma not to take the university and other assets which were under probe by the Emeka Ihedioha administration which preceded the Uzodinma administration.

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