WORRIED by the embarrassment caused him by some reports credited to his aides and political appointees, Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State has cautioned them against making claims on his administration’s purported achievements. The governor, in a chat with The Guardian, decried such false claims especially as they were being dished out through the state-owned electronic media.
He said: “I do not claim projects I did not execute or achievements I did not record. The projects I embark upon are visible, both those completed and on-going, including those we have slated to do. Henceforth, any editor of the state radio/television that approves such false claims of my achievements will be frowned at”.He listed some of his on-going projects that are overt as the new state secretariat, international conference centre and new Government House, Umuahia, new Umuahia markets at Ubani-Ibeku and that of timber in Ndume-Ibeku.Others are the dualisation of Umuahia Township roads, diagnostic centres at Aba and Umuahia, including over 260 health centres in various communities across the state.In Aba, he listed pedestrian bridge at the state polytechnic, scooping of major drainage, Ohanku road, the Ukwu Mango road at Ariaria Market, New Motor Park at Osisisoma, among others.
According to him, environmental sanitation and refuse disposal are also being executed even as purchasing of trucks for doing so has become a regular monthly exercise despite the state’s lean resources, which he put at about N3.5 billion, adding that salaries were being paid duly.“All these we have done and we are doing without taking any loan or bond even in the face of grave security challenges that we faced and are stilling facing”.
He also directed commissioners and political appointees to henceforth take full charge of positions, including enlightening the public on the activities of their ministries.He added: “They should not leave same for me, they ought to be creative and innovative and watch sycophants make frivolous credits to governments on what has not been done”.
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