By Shaka Momodu
In October 2015, I wrote an article titled, ‘Okorocha Puts Imo in Chains.’ That
piece was written as a direct response to Okorocha’s incompetence,
maladministration, mismanagement of bailout funds, failure to pay workers’
salaries and pensioners’ entitlements, and the state’s poor infrastructure,
particularly in Owerri. His government was riddled with corruption, outright
thievery and official celebration of inanities as achievements. But the comic
has shown an unrelenting inclination to betray the trust of the people by
beating his own worst record of poor performance.
I had posited in the referenced article that “one is tempted to call for a psychiatric
evaluation of the governor because clearly, something is wrong with a chief
executive who wouldn’t construct roads, and who begs for a bailout to pay workers’
salaries – only to go on a wild spending binge abroad with scarce foreign
exchange in the name of attracting foreign investors to his state. It is almost
unbelievable the level of decay and rot that confronts anyone who visits
Owerri”.
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| *Gov Rochas Okorocha |
It is a shame that the situation in Imo has grown
progressively worse such that it has reached a crisis proportion. Angered by my
article, the boy-boy deputy governor wrote a disparaging and utterly vacuous
counter-narrative to please his master. He tried to practise new highfalutin
words he had just learnt on me. But today, we know better.
