Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has reacted to the recent protest by pensioners in the state.
The elderly pensioners on Wednesday, June 15, took to the streets of the state capital to demonstrate over non payment of their entitlements by the government. Below is the statement issued by Sam Onwuemeodo, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor:

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“The State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has sincerely commended the pensioners in the state for the peaceful manner with which they had conducted their protest on Thursday, June 16, 2016 over the non-payment of their pensions for certain months.
The governor contends that the Pensioners were right to have gone on protest over their pensions, and had only exercised their guaranteed right of protest over an issue affecting them.
It was as a result of the appreciation of the reason for the protest that made the governor to direct the security agencies in the state and all the government officials to be on their toes for the period the protest had lasted to ensure that no pensioner involved in the exercise was insulted or touched. And the pensioners had had undisrupted outing, and even chased away the Commissioner for Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) who was sent to talk with them on what could be made available for them as entertainment, while discussion with their leaders would follow. However, the only area the governor felt and still feel worried with the pensioners was their failure or inability to find out the reason for the delay in the payment of their pensions since such situation had not arisen before now.
The pensioners in the state do not need to be told that the governor loves them greatly and would have also loved to pay them all the arrears outrightly given the option since he had paid them religiously since 2011, until now. And the governor had expected the pensioners to ask question and find out the reason for the delay this time.
Since 2011, and before the current economic challenges across the nation, the government had paid the pensioners in the state without taking cognizance of certain lapses in the administration of the pension payments and the number of genuine pensioners in the state. But the economic situation in the country at the moment occasioned by the mismanagement of the country’s resources over the years, which has also affected negatively the financies of the states has called for stringent measures in the payment of salaries and pensions. It was this development that had compelled the government to find out why between 2011 and now, the number of pensioners in the state has snowballed by 500 percent, and the amount involved gone from hundreds of millions of naira to billions of naira.
That was one of the reasons the government embarked on verification. And preliminary findings have shown that a cartel had used the opportunity offered to them by the change of government in 2011 to inflate unpatriotically the number of pensioners in the state to a level that is unbelievable. And that is what the government has been assiduously working to rectify. And the truth remains that once the government succeeds in separating the fake pensioners from the genuine ones, the genuine ones would be paid their pensions. And this action will be taken in a matter of weeks.
The governor therefore regrets the delay and at the same time appeals to the pensioners in the state for their understanding, bearing in mind that he meant well for them since 2011 when he became governor. It is equally important to let the pensioners know that those urging them to take one action or the other do not love them more than governor Okorocha. For instance, the owner of the particular Radio station in the state that had tried to make out something sinister from the pensioners’ protest was reported to have got more than N750 million from the 4 billion dollars’ arms purchase scandal, and the pensioners should ask those in the radio station why they didn’t bring up the N750 million issue for discussion.
Once more, the governor appeals to the pensioners in the state for understanding.[/b]

Source: http://timenaija.com/governor-rochas-okorocha-reacts-to-the-protest-by-pensioners/

all na wash!

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If he dey talk, he dey smile!

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Wicked man ooo

OK but why that old man in the picture is lying over there..

Government and verification trick.. .. .

This verification that doesn't have a commencement and closing date

there are things our govt don't need to play politics with, aged men n women need not to protest before there voice can be heard. this is there entitlement got Christ sake.
what I don't understand is if rochas is owing teachers,lectures, civil servants back log of salaries yet no new project in IMO since his second term, what then is he using monthly federal allocations,IGR for? even the ball out fund. confused

ok

He is heartless. A day of reckoning is coming

React by paying them not by commending them.


It is long overdue.


That is the geography of the Earth's surface.

Imagine, baba @ 60s 70s 80s protesting before the have their entitlement. awon politicians yi ma rust ni Hell ni.
Amen.

If you are not doing the tight thing, the people must complain.

I am in Imo state and I can tell you categorically that Rochas is a prick and a lying fool.

Hehehe. I will keep smiling as long as we keep deceiving our selves in this country. Rochas is a big scam

360jamng:





Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has reacted to the recent protest by pensioners in the state.
The elderly pensioners on Wednesday, June 15, took to the streets of the state capital to demonstrate over non payment of their entitlements by the government. Below is the statement issued by Sam Onwuemeodo, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor:

[b]
“The State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has sincerely commended the pensioners in the state for the peaceful manner with which they had conducted their protest on Thursday, June 16, 2016 over the non-payment of their pensions for certain months.
The governor contends that the Pensioners were right to have gone on protest over their pensions, and had only exercised their guaranteed right of protest over an issue affecting them.
It was as a result of the appreciation of the reason for the protest that made the governor to direct the security agencies in the state and all the government officials to be on their toes for the period the protest had lasted to ensure that no pensioner involved in the exercise was insulted or touched. And the pensioners had had undisrupted outing, and even chased away the Commissioner for Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) who was sent to talk with them on what could be made available for them as entertainment, while discussion with their leaders would follow. However, the only area the governor felt and still feel worried with the pensioners was their failure or inability to find out the reason for the delay in the payment of their pensions since such situation had not arisen before now.
The pensioners in the state do not need to be told that the governor loves them greatly and would have also loved to pay them all the arrears outrightly given the option since he had paid them religiously since 2011, until now. And the governor had expected the pensioners to ask question and find out the reason for the delay this time.
Since 2011, and before the current economic challenges across the nation, the government had paid the pensioners in the state without taking cognizance of certain lapses in the administration of the pension payments and the number of genuine pensioners in the state. But the economic situation in the country at the moment occasioned by the mismanagement of the country’s resources over the years, which has also affected negatively the financies of the states has called for stringent measures in the payment of salaries and pensions. It was this development that had compelled the government to find out why between 2011 and now, the number of pensioners in the state has snowballed by 500 percent, and the amount involved gone from hundreds of millions of naira to billions of naira.
That was one of the reasons the government embarked on verification. And preliminary findings have shown that a cartel had used the opportunity offered to them by the change of government in 2011 to inflate unpatriotically the number of pensioners in the state to a level that is unbelievable. And that is what the government has been assiduously working to rectify. And the truth remains that once the government succeeds in separating the fake pensioners from the genuine ones, the genuine ones would be paid their pensions. And this action will be taken in a matter of weeks.
The governor therefore regrets the delay and at the same time appeals to the pensioners in the state for their understanding, bearing in mind that he meant well for them since 2011 when he became governor. It is equally important to let the pensioners know that those urging them to take one action or the other do not love them more than governor Okorocha. For instance, the owner of the particular Radio station in the state that had tried to make out something sinister from the pensioners’ protest was reported to have got more than N750 million from the 4 billion dollars’ arms purchase scandal, and the pensioners should ask those in the radio station why they didn’t bring up the N750 million issue for discussion.
Once more, the governor appeals to the pensioners in the state for understanding.[/b]

Source: http://timenaija.com/governor-rochas-okorocha-reacts-to-the-protest-by-pensioners/

...no MONEY in the treasury box yet OKORO-AWUSA went and bought pieces of land in BAUCHI state and wants to build school with the little left in Imo state's treasury living the IMOs hopeless and workers and pensioners unpaid.THUNDER wey go soon fire this idiotic ROCHAS still dey do press up for Zimbabwe.Heartless man!!!

abdulrazat:
I am in Imo state and I can tell you categorically that Rochas is a prick and a lying fool.

That's man is not worthy of been a prick. Let's just say he is the opposite of prick. Scam governor

Rochas Okorocha, $1.4billion in United States. (FBI)

We dey watch

Are u sure he is not diverting Imo's money to the north?....

This man is just 2 wicked!!!!....starving pple of his state yet he calls them "my people"....m not surprised anyway...if it were 2 b Ekiti state news now...many Zombies wud av rushed here 2 comment and say all sort of negative things...he has money 2 build for dos useless Almanjiri yet his pple are in hunger...no wonder all APC governors are saint!

Okoro Hausa go and pay them and stop talking nonsense if it was Christmas tree you would be good at wasting the money. APC and lies are one after some zombies would also come and support him kwa.

zeeudenwa:

2nd term na scam

My brother, lets say NO to 2nd term.. It is a big scam

They almost shifted the blame to gej. Rochas is truelly a disgrace. @beremx...wetin you talk for this one?

Okoroawusa is a bad.tard. He is not from imo. He is from Daura. Check his profile you will see it there. Pensioners should wait for verification, so they can hear the result when they are already in the grave. Nonsense

justicejay:
Imagine, baba @ 60s 70s 80s protesting before the have their entitlement. awon politicians yi ma rust ni Hell ni.
Amen.

Hell is very far, bro and we will also not see if/as they rust there.
Don't you think that it is better to make them rust and roast here on earth as the pensioners and other people they are supposed to cater for are suffering here on earth?

Innocent ppl cannot suffer 4 things like dis. While d verification exercise is on going, dere are ways u can ask ppl 2 claim deir pension pending d time d thorough exercise is concluded.

abdulrazat:
I am in Imo state and I can tell you categorically that Rochas is a prick and a lying fool.

oga show some respect to Prick

Lies...All lies...wicked politicians...

meanwhile, where Is the Rochas online spin doctor? come and earn your crumbs..

chiscodedon:
there are things our govt don't need to play politics with, aged men n women need not to protest before there voice can be heard. this is there entitlement got Christ sake.
what I don't understand is if rochas is owing teachers,lectures, civil servants back log of salaries yet no new project in IMO since his second term, what then is he using monthly federal allocations,IGR for? even the ball out fund. confused

don't our politicians deserve death or something harsher...take a look at the big bellied fool...

bla bla bla bla so it's taken him all of 5yrs to conduct a verification of pensioners.Ineffectual buffoon.
Yet it doesn't take him half as much to build schools in the north. Planting cocoyam in a rich man's farm while ur family starvs.