Orji Sampson
Elders from all the autonomous communities in Oguta LGA on Thursday February 28 called for the removal of the Secretary to the Imo State Government, Prof Anthony Anwuka accusing him of poor representation.
The leader of the angry group which carried placards with inscriptions: “Anwuka must go”, Hon Casmir Ohamara informed Imo Trumpeta that recently the elders of all the communities in Oguta LGA met and agreed on a particular list of names for the Community Government only for Prof. Anwuka to secretly short change the names with his own personal list.
Ohamara further stated that some names in the Anwuka list are people who do not even reside in Imo state while some are believed to be PDP members.
Also Speaking, one of the Elders, Chief V.C. Akalato, State that, the same Prof. Anwuka connived with his cronies who have been feeding him with false names to remove list of autonomous Communities in Oguta like the Ndionyemaobi autonomous Community.
In his response to their complain, the Chief of Staff to Governor, Prince Eze Madumere urged the group to stay calm assuring them that since they have made their complain he will ensure that his Excellency, Chief Rochas Okorocha hears of it. He then advised that they can quietly return back to their normal responsibilities.
Speaking letter, Hon Ohamara said that the group has just performed one of its democratic responsibilities, expressing their grimaces and hoping that just as the Chief of Staff had told them, they can only hope that the Governor in his good spirit of Rescue Mission would save his people from the misrepresentation of Prof. Anwuka.
In a related development, the incorporated trustees of a non governmental organization, Every Child Educational and Advancement Foundation ECEAF has also called on the State Governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha to obey the court ruling of the 29th January, 2013, which ordered the sack of those indicted by the Imo State University (IMSU) white paper in the present administration.
In a release signed by Comr. Precious Nwadike, and Dr Chidiebere Okechukwu, they argued that the retaining of such people with criminal records in public offices contradicts the project of sanitizing the moral decadence among Imo Youths and a total disrespect for the state Judiciary entrusted to him to protect its integrity.
Reacting on the mission of Oguta Elders, an aide to the SSG, Peter Anwukah said that those who came to protest have no locus for their action according to the rules for the appointment of GLOs. “The names they gave were not used because the don’t have the right to appoint people outside their locality as stated in government directive. They felt that the SSG would have consulted them before doing the changes which was done according to government directive. The rules indicate that Government appointees from the various communities should form the list of the GLOs”, he added
