{"id":10414,"date":"2013-12-22T19:04:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T19:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=10414"},"modified":"2013-12-22T19:04:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T19:04:14","slug":"2014-budget-presentation-the-untold-story-of-why-imo-lawmakers-allowed-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=10414","title":{"rendered":"2014 Budget Presentation The Untold Story of Why Imo Lawmakers Allowed Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nEx Speaker\u2019s Media Aide Petitions Okorocha, EFCC Over Fraud in Uwajumuogu Office
\nImo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha would not have been at the Imo State House of Assembly to present the 2014 budget for appropriation, after minor disagreements scuttled the earlier date coupled with the insistence by some members of the state legislature that grey areas in the previous budgets be strengthened, Trumpeta can reveal reasons why the there was a volte face on the matter.
\nTrumpeta reliably gathered that after the initial resistance, the leadership of the House met and took strategic steps to douse the tension within their ranks. Strategic meetings were held among the lawmakers where a reasonable \u201cmessage\u201d in form of inducement was sent across to force the lawmakers change their initial hard posture.
\nIt was gathered that a prominent office holder in charge of affairs in government House, Owerri, personally arrived the complex with mouth watering incentives and offers to enable the members of the Imo State House of Assembly shift on the \u201cno budget presentation resolution\u201d. It was after the members received the package that it considered it necessary to open the Chambers for the governor for the 2014 budget presentation.
\nDespite the alleged provision of inducement, some members deliberately kept away from the chamber. It was difficult for the lawmakers to form quorum before Okorocha arrived for the presentation.
\n Meanwhile, the former Senior Special Assistant Media to the Speaker of Imo House of Assembly, Rt Hon Benji Uwajumogu, Citizen Samuelson Iwuoha has petitioned Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over alleged fraud in the office of Rt Hon Ben Uwajumogu.
\nIn a petition to the Governor signed by Iwuoha and made available to Trumpeta, the former Aide of the Speaker alleged that the Chief of Staff and Acting SSA Media to Uwajumogu \u201care severely damaging the image and reputation of this government with their fraudulent practices at the Assembly\u201d.
\n\u201cWhile the Chief of Staff (without the knowledge of the
\nSpeaker) is massively involved in fraud and corrupt practices, the
\nActing SSA on Media (also without the knowledge of the Speaker) is
\ninvolved in stealing and diversion of stipends meant for accredited
\nCorrespondents of Imo State House of Assembly. The Assembly
\ncorrespondents have written petitions to the Speaker of Imo State
\nHouse of Assembly.
\n\u201cOn the 7th of November 2013, I personally wrote a letter to the
\nSpeaker complaining and reporting the activities of the Chief of Staff
\n(Mr. Kodichi Anamekwe) and his cohorts. I asked the Speaker to set up
\na 4 man panel to investigate my allegations. But instead a query was
\nissued to me 36 days later (on the 13th of December 2013). I responded
\nto the query immediately, pleading that at least a 4 man panel made up
\nof honourable members should be constituted to look into my
\nallegations.
\n\u201cThe intrigues that followed made me to resign my appointment as the
\nSenior Special Assistant on Special Duties on the 17th of December
\n2013.
\nYour Excellency, I am therefore calling on you most respectfully to
\ncompel the leadership of Imo State House of Assembly to set up a 4 man
\npanel\/committee made up of only honourable members who must invite me
\nin the presence of Pressmen to make statements on the Chief of
\nStaff and the Acting SSA on Media.
\nThis rescue mission government will only have genuine meaning if
\nfraudulent and corrupt political appointees like Mr. Kodichi Anamekwe and Emeka Ahaneku are appropriately investigated\u201d Samuelson alleged.
\nWhen contacted, Hon Ahaneku said Samuelson is suffering from ignorance, pointing out that there is no such fraud in the office of the Speaker, adding that everybody know Iwuoha as a perpetual petition writer, who wants to discredit those he sees as his political enemies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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