A cooperation between greed and selfishness is taking shape in Imo state today. Hand in hand with this is the application of cruelties and vendetta as policies of state. The high levels of cooperation between the forces of retrogression and darkness in the state must be checked by well meaning citizens of Imo state and the time is now.

To the present government in the state, we say that it is not enough to feast our ears with slogans and jargons. It is a matter of humiliation and shame that after 100 days in office, the people have not seen the direction of the Rochas government. The foundation for development laid down by the Ohakim administration is now sapped.

The inhuman boycott of most of the Ohakim signature projects has grounded the Imo economy to a halt. It seems as clear as daylight that the state is in serious trouble. The state is bleeding to a slow death. The whole revenue system of government both at the state and local levels has now been domesticated and privatized. The Rochas system seems to be designed to crush the very life out of our citizens.

The emerging dictatorship degrades the spirit and soul of the people. It has made the people look small. Fear and cowardice have taken over. The government of Rochas is not the people’s government. It is a government of other people, by other people and for other people. The state has been sold to distant masters from Anambra and other states of the federation. We have been colonized in Imo, and history has known no good colonizers. The present government is a perpetual insult to our people.

Everyday, people’s homes are broken into by reckless agents of government in search of so called government property. But in truth, the purpose of the raids is to overawe and humiliate the people. This programmed humiliation is a chosen method by government to destroy the free spirit of the people. Our traditional institutions are now subjugated and ridiculed. The economy of the state is now in ruins. The lofty heigths reached by the Imo State Investment Promotion Agency ( ISIPA ) in opening up the state economy now lies in tatters. Property prices which were on the rise under the Ohakim administration have collapsed. The people asked for bread only for them to get stone.

The intolerance of those at the helm of power in the state betrays their lack of faith in their own cause. The unrestricted individualism of the people at the top of governance in the present administration has grounded governance and service delivery to a halt. Heaps of rubbish now litter our streets, while erosion menace has increased both within our city streets and beyond. The assumptions underlying many of the programs and policies of government are at best infantile and childish.

Even our legislature is not helping matters at all. The State House of Assembly has turned into a rubber stamp and lives only a fictitious existence. As an institution, the House has traded its independence and failed to maintain an independent critical attitude towards the government, and act as a brake on the autocratic tendencies of government, knowing full well that without her oversight functions, democracy dies and also, the people’s intellect, culture and public morality stagnate.

Every project of the Ohakim government has been renamed. Today, the security apparatus which Ohakim called Operation Festival is renamed Operation Rescue Imo. But the Ohakim objective is still the case. The Imo wonder lake is now renamed Imo blue lake of treasure. The Imo job centre and finishing school is now given a new name. Yet, we are meant to believe by the same government that Ohakim achieved nothing. What a contradiction. This is why the arrival back in Imo state by Ohakim was accorded a regal reception judging by the warmth, cordiality and affection displayed by Imo people. He returned with his integrity intact, and has not stepped down from his role of a visioner. His arrival now represents the liberation of the Imo spirit from the clutches of voodoism.

The buccaneers and merchants of commerce who came from our neighboring state to wage war against Imo people and who stole our state and deposited it on the hungry laps of their new emperor in Imo state must realize that Imo state cannot be torn apart like their own state which they have destroyed. Imo state is not for sale to the highest bidders from outer states. For us as Imo people, we have turned into watchmen who stay awake in protection of our heritage and destiny. And we say, never again shall our commonwealth be stolen from us.

Ugochukwu writes from Abuja


http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/features/freekick/2011/oct/14/freekick-14-10-2011-002.html

The highlighted is neo-colonization and enslavement, its not fair in the 21st century

Ohaneze1:

The highlighted is neo-colonization and enslavement, its not fair in the 21st century

PDP losers crying foul!!

We will take u serious when u use your old monika.

"The foundation laid by the Ohakim administration". . . Are you kidding me?

Bad way for the PDP to build propaganda against Rochas. Using claim of "Masters from Anambra and other states"? Lol. Are people from Anambra not Igbo? Is Imo not Igboland? Look how many private businesses are owned by Imolites,especially in Onitsha. Abia the same. Also, who are the other states? PDP's time is up in Imo.

The 419ners at it again. No more chance for you guys. I-m-o- i-s still being rescu-ed fro-m Ohakim and the 419-ners'- di-saster.