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Nobody will drive you away, Uzodinma assures northerners

April 11, 2021

By Chris Njoku, Owerri

Imo Governor Hope Uzodinma has assured the northern community residing in Imo of government’s protection always, saying they are part and parcel of the State.

“This is where you live. This is where you do your business. You are stakeholders in Imo State. Sit in your house and defend yourself and protect your house. Nobody will drive you away,” he said.

He spoke during a meeting with the leadership of the Northern community at the Government House Owerri over the weekend.

The leadership of the Northern community said they had come to pay a solidarity visit to Uzodimma and to solicit his continuous support in the face of recent pockets of insecurity affecting them.

Uzodimma, who told the northerners they are taxpayers in Imo State, admonished them not to be “tenants in your house,” adding “once you are here doing your business you are from Imo State.”

The Governor told them that “every protection or support I can give to the Igbo man from Imo State I will also give to a northerner who is in Imo State.”

He reminded them that they voted for him overwhelmingly and government has a programme that will help them live well and conduct their businesses properly.

He told them that government has taken note of the development in their habitation and assured them that it will not happen again

“This government has no time for nonsense. Don’t go for self- help. Government will help you. No arrangement by any person or group will be stronger than that of government.

“All we need from you is information. Pray for the souls of those who lost their lives,” the Governor said.

Uzodimma, who thanked the leaders of the northern community for their maturity and understanding of the events happening in Imo State of late, noted the development has nothing to do with herdsmen but the “conspiracy of some blood thirsty and greedy political leaders from the state working to ensure that state of emergency is declared in Imo State.

“They want to create impression that the people are fighting the northerners. But unfortunately their plans did not work and will not work. Blood means nothing to them and that is the difference between them and us.”

SECRET REVEALED! Northern Youths Are Planning Attacks Against Ndigbo – Imo Govt

April 10, 2021

The Imo State Government through the Commissioner for Information, Chief Declan Emelumba revealed that ‘ Northern youths are planning attacks against Igbo property in the north. ‘

The Commissioner disclosed this on Friday while reacting to Okorocha’ s warning to Governor Hope Uzodinma not to politicize the security situation of Imo State.

Emelumba accused the former governor of inciting northerners against the state, he explained that some northern youths in a press conference after Monday’ s attack on Imo Police Command headquarters condemned Gov Hope Uzodinma and effusively praised Okorocha.

The commissioner added that Okorocha went to the north to castigate Igbo leaders for his selfish interest.

His words, ” It is a direct slap on the face of Imo people for Okorocha to say that the cause of the security breaches in the state was poverty and injustice when he greatly impoverished Imo people by mindlessly appropriating their commonwealth in a most unjust manner, as established by the judicial commissions of inquiry that investigated his tenure in office.

” Do you know the collateral damage that rascality and indiscretion have cost Ndigbo? As I speak, Northern youths are planning attacks against Igbo property in the north because someone chose to sell out for political patronage. “

Recall that Senator Rochas Okorocha has explained that the unending herdsmen crises, the banditry, the unending Boko Haram, and kidnapping in the country are all products of poverty and injustice.

He said, ” The recent attack on the Police headquarters and the Correctional Centre in Imo State, the unending herdsmen crises, the banditry, the unending Boko Haram, and kidnapping are all products of poverty and injustice and I think the time has come for us, political leaders, to tell ourselves the truth and address this ugly situation and help our men and women of the armed forces and the police who are currently fighting the symptoms and not the disease of poverty and injustice. “