Governor Okorocha Hostage Mission
This article was published in 2012/ 2013 this is just to refresh the memory if Imolites that I saw all what is happening now in time. Enjoy the reading.
In the words of Aristotle, “Men are good in one way, but bad in many”. The irony of life is that it makes the great small and weak and the small great and strong. To prevail against evils and societal ills one must speak out. In speaking out, one must not be afraid of death because the government of any mediocre who is afraid of advice has always rewarded the critics with threat of all sorts”. ‘The soul’ according to Thomas Aquinas “Is known by its act”. Therefore Rochas has done it before and he will do it again.
The ignoble situation in Imo state is capable of compelling one to pray like St. Augustine, “Lord make me chaste, but not yet”. Not yet because there is a battle of injustice that I must fight and may not succeed if I fight like a chaste hence ‘Men are good in one way. But bad in many’.
A snail was crossing the road when he was run over by a tortoise. A policeman came along and asked him how it had happened, ‘I don’t remember’, said the snail. ‘It happened so fast’. Yes it has happened so fast in Okorocha’s administration. His popularity has seriously reduced. Insensecibility to the pains of the masses has over increased. Like Plato would say, “What first attracts us to people seldom binds us to them”.
If you want to be good, begin by assuming you are bad. Yes, noble humans prefer someone who is openly wicked than a pretence of goodness while in reality you are shaking hands with a clenched fist. Things are not always as bad as they seem, they are often worse. At the moment, the worst situation is certain in Imo state because he who marries a widow with three children marries four wives.
We are in big trouble because we have a governor who is a hypocrite but does not speak like one. As a liar who many pretended to trust and believe, he has continued in the lies and consequently revealed himself to the extent that the international world has identified him as a corrupt governor. Oh minor thieves are hanged and major ones are honoured!
A hypocrite deceives no one but himself. This is further authenticated by Aesop in his fables thus, “A bear was once bragging about his generous feelings, and saying how refined he was compared with other animals; (there is, in fact, a tradition that a bear will never touch a dead body) a fox, who heard him talking in this strain, smiled and said, “My friend, when you are hungry, I only wish you would confine your attention to the dead and leave the living alone”. Today, the bar has eaten both the living and the dead in Imo state and it happened so soon.
It is very unfortunate that the 10,000 youths the previous administration employed are today begging for food in the streets of Owerri and beyond due to the fact that Okorocha’s administration does not see any reason in retaining them because they are all from Isiala Mbano-what nonsense! I recently spoke with one of the victims who complained to me that she lost her daughter to a serious illness due to lack of money to effect her treatment occasioned by Gov. Okorocha’s Rescue Mission programme. Why our present governor should decide to punish Imo youths in this manner remains a mystery to me. Are the youths no longer the hope of our future?
Someone who ought to encourage employment and consolidate same is busy destabilizing the youths and at the same denying workers of their wages. Something is going wrong in Imo state. Who knows if the dissolved 106 Royal Fathers have asked both the gods and God to fight on their behalf. This is madness!
Okorocha who promised to employ and empower more youths in Imo state during his political campaign tour, is now disengaging gainfully employed youths thereby increasing hardship to the people he came to rescue. We are fully aware of the fact that Imo state allocation from the Federal Ministry of Finance has increased. Yes in the words of Gov. Okorocha, “….there is enough money to run the affairs of Imo state…” The question now is, where is the said money going to?
It is on record that the previous administration of Sir. Ikedi Ohakim which had the highest level of litigation in the history of democracy in Nigeria did not receive up to #3.5 billion throughout his four years administration in office, yet he was focused. Today Imo state allocation of June, July and August is above #3.8 billion. Yes I agree with okorocha that ‘there is enough money to run the affairs of the state’, but where is the money now?
Imo workers are on strike right now for non-implementation of the new minimum age of which Okorocha’s administration is capable of paying. Why this wickedness on Imo people? The most annoying situation is why Okorocha’s administration should hold hostage the allocation meant for Imo Local Government Area Councils. No L.G.A in Imo state has received up to between #70 million and #100 million for each L.G.A has been consistently announced and published by Imo state government. Why this falsehood?
A city Miss asked an old farmer: “which is correct grammatically, sir, to say a hen is setting or sitting?” Then replied the farmer, “I don’t know Miss, and it doesn’t interest me at all, what I wonder, when I hear a hen cackle, is if she’s laying or lying”. The cry of the poor masses do not bother our governor at all, what matters to him is the laying of the hen in as much as he is assured of the egg. Otherwise, how can we justify his trip to USA while his home (Imo state) is on (strike) fire. Here is a man who never won any election because the first election in April was a manipulation…
Rochas has taught Imo people that the more money one makes, the harder it is to part with and that the test of morality is what one do when he is in power. Yes, we may shout out reality but not memories and like Socrates would say, “To dream is happiness to wake is reality”. Today Imo people are weeping for the beauty that we lost and the horrors that are on ground now. We are totally disappointed that the government that is parading itself as ‘people oriented government’ has been deceiving Imo people by delaying the payment of salaries of civil servants and teachers ever since Okorocha came into power.
We heard that Okorocha went to an Islamic bank to borrow some money and he was giving a condition to introduce Islamic principles in his administration as part of condition to getting the money. It was in keeping to this same agreement that he banned the use of cell-phone in Imo secondary schools, and very soon this administration will bane the selling and buying of alcohol drinks and the wearing of trouser by women. Who knows where Okorocha is leading us to.To Islamatize Imo state? Never! We shall see to the end of this because Imo belongs to us all