The usual August-meeting which takes wives of previous Governors inImoStateto the Villages to have a first-hand interaction with the rural women, now holds at the Government House, Owerri.
Why the meeting was taken to the city instead of the usual communal areas is not yet clear, but a source who spoke to Imo Trumpeta said it is because of the state of roads in the rural areas, which are now death traps.
The source who wished to remain anonymous told Imo Trumpeta that attempt by the wife of the Governor to take the trip to the villages turned out to be a dangerous gamble as all the rural villages in Imo State are inaccessible because of the bad state of the roads, caused by attempt to tar some of them by the Okorocha Government.
It was learnt that rather than forget this year’s August meeting, the decision to hold it at the Government House, Owerri was arrived at by the Adviser’s to the Imo First Lady.
Therefore, each of the Twenty-seven Local Government Areas of Imo State was given a particular date in which a selected number of women would be conveyed with Buses to Owerri for the meeting at Government House.
However, many of those who spoke to Imo Trumpeta condemned the act, saying that holding the August meeting at the Government House has defeated the aim for which the meeting in the first place was meant to achieve. Mrs. Agnes Nnadi who spoke to Imo Trumpeta said that the purpose of August-meeting was for women to travel home from the cities and work for the development and progress of the rural Communities and the rural women.
She said it would have served a good purpose for the First Lady to travel to the villages and see the rural women in their natural settings, than the sham taking place now at the Government House as August meeting.
She said the excuse of bad roads is not acceptable.
“Since the History of Imo, this the first time August-meetings are being held at the Government House. It has defeated the objective” she said.
The other women advised that the exercise should have been put-off than holding it in Owerri wasting public fund, because it has simply turned out a jamboree for the well-to-do women.
“How can a rural woman travel to Owerri for the August meeting? What would she learn or is she going there to see Government House?”Mrs. Ebere Uzoma asked Imo Trumpeta
