{"id":1152,"date":"2012-07-26T17:47:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T17:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2012-07-26T17:47:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-26T17:47:16","slug":"governor-okorocha-canvasses-for-additional-state-for-south-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=1152","title":{"rendered":"Governor Okorocha Canvasses for Additional State for South-East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has urged the National<br \/>\nAssembly to ensure that additional state is created in South-East on<br \/>\nthe basis of equality and fairness.<br \/>\nGovernor Okorocha who stated this when a committee on State Creation<br \/>\nvisited him in Government House, Owerri, maintained that an additional<br \/>\nstate in the south-east would bring the zone at par with other zones<br \/>\nin the country.<br \/>\nThe governor posited that South-East has been marginalized due to the<br \/>\nimbalance in the number of states and urged all the stakeholders in<br \/>\nthe zone to close ranks to ensure that the project is actualized.<br \/>\nGov Okorocha promised that his administration would offer the<br \/>\nnecessary support and logistics required in the project, adding that<br \/>\nadditional state to the zone would largely boost socio-economic<br \/>\ndevelopment of the zone.<br \/>\nHe enjoined the Committee to engaged with relevant stakeholders as<br \/>\nwell as embark on aggressive sensitization campaign within and outside<br \/>\nthe south-east zone.<br \/>\nThe governor further posited that additional state for the zone could<br \/>\nbe created from Imo and Anambara for equity and fairness in the<br \/>\nSouth-East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has urged the National Assembly to ensure that additional<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-xtra"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?cat=8\" rel=\"category\">News Extra<\/a>","tag_info":"News Extra","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}