Imo promises prompt land allocations, Uzodimma demands accountability

Imo promises prompt land allocations, Uzodimma demands accountability

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The Secretary of Imo State Land Use Allocation Committee, Uju Okoro, has promised all allottees they would soon get their lands.

Okoro said this while reacting to comments by a former appointee of the government, Fabian Ihekweme, who threw a challenge at the Governor of Imo State, Senator Hope Uzodimma, over land allocation in the state.

This was even as Okoro informed that sooner than later, the concerned persons would have their land allocated to them.

Recall that the media was awash with comments by Ihekweme, calling on the governor of Imo State, Senator Uzodimma to either allocate lands to the allottees or refund the alleged N12 billion he collected from Imo people for land allocation.

Reacting to the challenge, Okoro, a former chairman of Isu Local Government Area of the state revealed that Uzodimma, upon assumption of office put in place some policies, to recover stolen properties, particularly lands, by the officials of the previous administration.

He added that through such policies, those whose lands were illegally collected had them back.

Okoro averred that the Uzodimma-led administration, in the course of the allocation discovered what he described as “huge illegal land dealings,” which allegedly resulted in the sack of the then Commissioner for Lands amongst others.

He enthused that as a careful administrator, the governor calmed down to ascertain the level of illegalities and fraud committed by the concerned appointees to avert the reoccurrence of what happened during the past administrations, where lands were illegally and fraudulently deprived of their owners.

Describing Uzodimma as a man who has zero tolerance for land grabbing, Okoro enjoined Ihekweme to look for other issues to write on and not about the ongoing allocation, which he described as a genuine process.

Okoro, who used the medium to thank the governor for his achievements in Imo, ranging from a good road network, and upgrading of Alvan Ikoku College of Education to a university status, Owerri FMC to University Teaching Hospital, however, charged Imo people to remain supportive of the Uzodimma-led administration.

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