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How I’m going to make Okorocha’s govt account for their deeds– Ihedioha
Imo State governor, Emeka Ihedioha, has continued to talk tough on ensuring that the immediate past government of Rochas Okorocha is made to account for its financial and other dealings in the state in the last eight years.
Ihedioha, who spoke on Tuesday when he declared open the ongoing retreat organised for the state lawmakers-elect in Oguta Local Government Area of the state, revealed the measures he was going to employ to ensure the Okorocha administration gives account.
He said the services of security agencies would be employed to achieve that, vowing that all those who looted the state in the last eight years “must be criminalised.”
Okorocha had recently asked Ihedioha to face governance and stop the moves against him and his government.
But Ihedioha wondered how he would start his government when nothing has allegedly been handed over to him.
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“I will have to involve the services of security agencies in making sure that those who served the state must account for it.
“We will criminalise those who looted our treasury. They said I should begin, when nothing was handed over to me. We must make them to account,” he said.
While he told the lawmakers-elect that they were coming at a time the state was at a crossroads, Ihedioha noted that though the challenges of fixing the “badly battered state” were huge, it was not impossible.
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