I will become a pastor, lawyer after office, says Uzodimma
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, has disclosed that his administration spent 95 per cent of capital expenditure to fight insecurity last year. Uzodimma, who disclosed this, on Wednesday, in a three and half hours radiophone in/ interactive programme, streamed from the Government House, Owerri, regretted that the scenario delayed development of the state.
He lamented that insecurity had been ravaging the state since he assumed office in 2020, accusing his political opponents and people from outside the state for instigating and perpetrating killings, mostly, members of his political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC). He said: “I pray that the state will not experience, in 2023, what it went through in 2021 and 2022.
“75 per cent of those caught in insecurity are not from the state.”
![[FILES] gunmen. Photo: AA](https://www.afriupdate.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/gunmen-1-1062x598-1-120x86.jpg "Gunmen abduct catholic priest, kill two police officers in Imo 1")
Also, the governor disclosed that the N12 billion in the vaults of the Imo State Universal Basic Education Commission (IMSUBEC) is to be spent in construction and rehabilitation of schools in the 305 wards of the 27 councils of the state.
He said: “We were able to save money. In 2020, when I came in, we paid our counterpart funding. In 2021, we paid our counterpart funding to UBEC. We are going to pay the counterpart funding for 2022.”
Answering questions during the programme, which were thrown at the governor by callers and interest groups, Uzodimma said that his administration is committed to reinvigorating the health and agriculture sectors, to ensure functional primary healthcare and food security for the people.
He, also, hinted that the World Bank and the African Development Bank (AfDB) would commit $360 million in the state’s agriculture sector, spanning seven years. He noted that Adapalm and Rubber Estate, owned by the state government, were being reinvigorated to boost the revenue profile and employment capacity of the state.
He urged Imo people to be patient with his administration, adding that he would conduct council elections before next governorship election in November.
MEANWHILE, the governor informed that he would leave office as a pastor or lawyer. According to him, he would concentrate on offering his life to God, serving humanity on ‘probono’ basis. Uzodimma stressed that he is a democrat, who has spent about 40 years in politics.
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