IMO HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY: ITT- INTERNATIONAL THIEF THIEF

Corruption is a social-human factor that entails the abuse of public office for private gains. It encompasses unilateral abuses by government officials such as embezzlement and nepotism as well as abuses linking public and private actors such as bribery, extortion influence peddling or fraud.More so, corruption can arise in both political and bureaucratic offices and may be petty or grand organized or unorganized. However, corruption pervades many aspects of human endeavours such as education,health, media, transports and agricultural extension development and practice.Corruption can pose a serious development challenge to agricultural extension practices in Nigeria and this by implication to very large extent limit agricultural production potentials in the country. Thereby exposing the country to the danger of hunger and starvation.

As a young man one of the artists I love following his music is the late legendary Afro-beat maestro Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Fela did a lot of songs, most of which are about the misrule of our government and even the western imperialists. Fela did a song titled: 'Beasts of no nation' to protest the evil apartheid regime in South-Africa. And back home, Fela through his songs exposed so many evil in government dealings. ITT (International Thief, Thief) VIP (Vagabonds in Power), Teacher don't teach me nonsense, Sorrow, tears and blood and Authority Stealing are a few among many work of legendary Fela. I remember his song title Army Arrangement; I heard Fela singing and saying 2.8 billion naira oil money missing.

For three months now i have been talking about the International Thief, Thief in the Imo State House of Assembly . I told you that over 3 billion naira has been looted and carted away by the Speaker of Imo State house of Assembly Hon BenJamin Uwajumogu. I told you that the Imo Speaker awarded fraudulent Road Contracts to himself in Imo State using his friends as fronts and used the money he gotfrom the road contracts scams to acquire eye popping mansions in Nigeria.I have been shouting because In the midst of abundant human and natural resources, the vast majority of Imo working masses live in abject poverty. The vast majority of Imolites are kept in unstable and difficult socio-economic conditions while Uwajumogu and a tiny fraction of his friends in the Imo House of Assembly have exclusive access to things and comforts of life.

I did asked Imolites to prevailed on the Imo House of Assembly to set up a probe panel that will call upon Mr Ikenna Samuelson Iwuoha to substantiate the allegations levelled against the Imo Speaker but up till date the House is silent. The Imo House of Assembly regards Uwajumogu as "untouchable".Untouchable because some key members of the House are also involved in the road contract scam in Imo State.We now have a situation of ' if you tell my own I tell your own in the House'

I am aware that Hon Stan Dara, Member Representing Osu Constituency in the Imo House of Assembly And House Chairman of State And Rural Roads Monitoring Committee with his own loot from road contract scam has built a multi million naira Massive Farm at Irete in Owerri West LGA. Dara is also presently from his loot building a multi million naira Asphalt plant in Owerri and also owns several duplexes at Egbeada Housing Estate in Owerri.Dara's duplexes at Egbeada are painted dark green.

I am also aware that Hon Ikechukwu Amuka ,Member representing Ideato South Constituency and House member of State And Rural Roads Monitoring Committee with his own loot from road contract scam has built a multi million naira hotel (Eastern Emirate Hotel) located at World Bank Housing Estate in Owerri. Amuka is also building a second multi million naira hotel.I am also aware that Hon Ugonna Ozurigbo (OZ-B) of Nwangele LGA has from his loot in the contract scam turned

his Kelvic Hotels Owerri of 12 rooms into a multi million naira Hotel.

I know that the Chief of Staff to the Speaker Kodichi Anamekwe has with his own loot from contract scam bought 30 plots of land in Owerri and has built a multi million naira mansion at Achike Udenwa Estate near Concord Hotel. Anamekwe's landed properties can be verified at the ministry of land and survey in Owerri.He is presently building a Hotel in Owerri. All the road contract papers of road contractors in Imo State were signed by him. Who authorized the Chief of Staff to the Speaker to sign road contracts? You can see why the House members are silent in the face of massive fraud rocking the House. The House has become a house of international thief thief(ITT)

I strongly hold that the fight against corruption in Imo State must not be tied down to personal interest. No amount of aspersions by Uwajumogu's relatives on facebook and emails can stop me from singing. My cry is a central point which labour and youth activists in Imo State must draw.I am insisting that Hon Benjamin Uwajumogu should be investigated and removed as Speaker of the Imo House of Assembly for road contract scam. Let us say No to corruption. I am also calling for the investigation of 4 other members of the Imo House of Assembly for road contract scam. The members are Hon Stan Dara, Hon Ikechukwu Amuka ,Hon Ugonna Ozurigbo (OZ-B) and The Speaker's Chief of Staff Kodichi Anamekwe

I call on the NLC, and other human rights groups' to join me in this fight against the capitalist rogues in the Imo House of Assembly . It is part of my dream to see Imo State's public space rid of charlatans, usurpers, pretenders and fly-by-nights. One has been consternated by its perennial impoverishment and betrayal. I call on Imolites to join me wage this anti-corruption crusade in Imo State.The rogues in the Imo House of Assembly also embraced the philosophy of privatisation of public properties in Imo State. Under this neo-liberal agenda, they proposed the total abandon of the conscious policy of spending public resources to develop key sectors like education, health care, housing and necessary social infrastructures. At the same time, adopted the central policy of selling public enterprises and resources to themselves. Uwajumogu sold the Imo State liason office in Abuja to himself for 70 million naira and converted the place to his private hotel. He now has so much money at his disposal which he is not statutorily compelled to use to develop the economy and or better the living conditions of Imolites. He is looting our money only to use this looted proceed to buy public properties for himself and his allies at give away prices and to acquire mansions here and there.

Find attached some pictures of properties fraudulently acquired by Imo Speaker Hon Benjamin

Uwajumogu and some members of the Imo House of Assembly.Also pictures of the roads that Uwajumogu awarded to himself are attached ,In two weeks time more pictures will be release about the stinking smell coming out of the Imo Assembly. I cannot keep silent to this capitalist looting when our unemployed youths in their thousands have become a wild and homeless lot and socially disinherited. Save us oh God .

Kenneth Uwadi,
Mmahu-Egbema, Imo State, Nigeria




ANOTHER HOTEL UNDER CONSTRUCTION ALONG YARDUA DRIVE NEW OWERRI AND OWNED BY HON. IKECHUKWU AMUKA


ANOTHER MANSION UNDER CONSTRUCTION ALONG IHITTE UBOMA UMUAHIA ROAD BEING BUILT BY IMO SPEAKER


EASTERN EMIRATE HOTELS LOCATED AT NEW OWERRI OWNED BY HON. IKECHUKWU AMUKA


IMO SPEAKER FATHER'S MANSION RENOVATED AND FURNISHED BY SPEAKER UWAJUMOGU


JASMINE HOTELS LOCATED BEHIND IMO CONCORDE HOTEL AND BUILT BY IMO SPEAKER


KELVIC HOTELS AND SUITES LOCATED BEHIND CONCORDE HOTELS AND OWNED BY HON. UGONNA OZURUIGBO


LAKE NWAEBERE STREET IN ALADINMA HOUSING ESTATE REHABLITATED BY IMO SPEAKERS COMPANY


MANSION 1 LOCATED ALONG CHIEF BEN UWAJUMOGU STREET FHE UMUGUMA AND BUILT BY IMO SPEAKER


MANSION 2 LOCATED ALONG CHIEF BEN UWAJUMOGU STREET FHE UMUGUMA AND BUILT BY IMO SPEAKER


MBANO STREET (ROAD 17) ALADINMA HOUSING ESTATE BY NYSC OFFICE REHABLITATED BY IMO SPEAKERS COMPANY


NEW ROAD 1 WITH BRIDGE LEADING TO CONCORDE HOTEL FROM JPROSS ROAD CONSTRUCTED BY IMO SPEAKER AND HIS FRONT


NEW ROAD 2 WITH BRIDGE LEADING TO CONCORDE HOTEL FROM JPROSS ROAD CONSTRUCTED BY IMO SPEAKER AND HIS FRONT


ROAD REHABILITATED BY IMO SPEAKER'S COMPANY (WERDIS LTD) AND LOCATED AT OPPOSITE ST. PETERS ANG CHURCH IKENEGBU LAYOUT BY FANO HOTELS


SIDE VIEW OF THE VILLAGE MANSION
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Articles by Kenneth Uwadi