{"id":25656,"date":"2019-08-12T18:34:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T18:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=25656"},"modified":"2019-08-12T18:34:37","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T18:34:37","slug":"tension-in-rescue-mission-as-probe-of-former-lga-chairman-tc-members-begins-as-govt-committee-calls-for-memoranda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?p=25656","title":{"rendered":"Tension In Rescue Mission, As Probe of Former LGA Chairman, TC Members Begins  .As Govt Committee Calls For Memoranda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"yiv3928716692ydp135b8a1aMsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/?attachment_id=25657\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-25657\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25657\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Imo-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Imo-2-1.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Imo-2-1-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3928716692ydp135b8a1aMsoNormal\">There is palpable fear among followers of Owelle Rochas Okorocha, especially those who served as his council chairmen and caretaker committee members from when he took over power in 2011 until he left in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3928716692ydp135b8a1aMsoNormal\"><i>Trumpeta<\/i>\u00a0was informed that the decision of the Ihedioha administration to probe alleged corrupt practices of former LGA chairmen has raised fear in the former governor\u2019s political camp.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3928716692ydp135b8a1aMsoNormal\">The committee set up by the governor has called for Memoranda asking for information relating to LGA activities during the period under review. The memoranda involves all financial transactions relating to LGA in Imo State including statutory allocations, IGR and all capital and recurrent expenditure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3928716692ydp135b8a1aMsoNormal\">According to a source in the political camp known as \u201cRescue Mission\u201d, the probe and call for Memoranda has sent jitters down the spines of Okorocha\u2019s followers who held positions as council chairmen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3928716692ydp135b8a1aMsoNormal\">\u201cWe are afraid of this probe,\u201d began a former council boss who was sacked recently during a chat. \u201cIt has made some of us to be afraid. You know we served Okorocha and this government is knee on probing us. And you know that there is no saint in our political system\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv3928716692ydp135b8a1aMsoNormal\">Speaking further, the source revealed that some of them are planning to meet with the present administration on a better way to avoid this matter. \u201cWe shall organize to meet the state government on the way forward\u201d the source added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is palpable fear among followers of Owelle Rochas Okorocha, especially those who served as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frontpage"],"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=3\" rel=\"category\">Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25656","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=25656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25658,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25656\/revisions\/25658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}