Chukwueke to Okorocha: Give us Imo financial records

Chukwueke to Okorocha: Give us Imo financial records

By JOHN Meziem

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo state has been challenged to publish the financial report or statement of the state since he assumed office in 2011.

A top Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Chief Jerry Chukwueke who gave the challenge in Owerri on Saturday while speaking to newsmen, wondered why the governor decided to ignore such sensitive issue. Chukwueke added that the people of Imo state want to know what the governor used over N276billion that came into the state since June 2011 for.

“Imo state has received in the excess of 276billion naira in allocation, derivation, excess crude funds, local governments fund, SURE-P, ecology. Take a look at what is on ground and compare it with such monumental funds, can Gov. Okorocha actually tell Imo people what he has done with the financial resources of Imo state?

“He has never published any financial report or statement. He has produced no accounts, no financial statement of any kind, Imo people don't know the financial position of their state.

“You know why he has not published it? It is because he has no records. He publicly said that due process is a waste of time, so he operates without any records, he has no records of what come in.

“In any business, the first thing you learn is about income and expenditure; we don't have it in Imo state. Can the governor show us how he deployed the funds that come into Imo state?

“There is no record, he keeps no record of contractors, keeps no record of revenue, keeps no record of his expenditures, there are no records, so he is unable to publish a financial statement, the least he owes Imo people”, Chukwueke stressed.