A former Minister of the Interior, Capt. Emmanuel Iheanacho, over the weekend, carpeted the Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, for contracting Chinese clay manufacturers to handle construction projects in the state.
He noted that the projects being executed by the Chinese had turned out to be of poor quality and substandard projects.
Capt. Iheanacho, who bared his mind during a media chat with journalists in Owerri, the Imo State capital, condemned what he tagged “China Projects” in the state.
Iheanacho, who is a frontline governorship aspirant under the platform of All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), decried what he alleged as “total disregard to due process and procedures as well unquenchable appetite for cheap labour by the Okorocha-led administration”, pointing out that such tendencies have negatively rubbished the governor’s earlier vision for the state.
He said: “It worries me that someone who enjoys the mandate of the people would revisit the people with visibly poor quality and substandard projects that collapse even when constructions are still ongoing. As the rains wash away the roads, other infrastructure such as buildings are collapsing almost on a daily basis.
“This sad but unfortunate development could be simply attributed to the governor’s total disregard for due process and unquenchable appetite for cheap labour. A governor should represent good quality and appreciable sense of taste to enable him bequeath to the people quality infrastructural projects expected to stand the taste of time. That of course informed the reason why Late Chief Sam Mbakwe’s projects are still useful to our state even after leaving office many years ago”.
The industrialist further described several billions of naira being spent by the Okorocha administration on infrastructural projects as “wasted funds”.
While contending that Imo people deserve the best in governance including quality and long- lasting projects, the aspirant promised to change the ugly trend by engaging only competent and capable contractors in executing infrastructural projects if elected next governor of the state in 2015.
“My bond with Imo people is to rekindle their confidence in the governance of their state which obviously has taken flight under the present administration. I am committed to give them the best in governance which they truly deserve. Their common resources will ultimately work for them as we shall deliver quality projects that will stand the taste of time. Only capable and competent contractors will be engaged to achieve noble objective”, he stated.
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