Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma, has warned Transition Committee Chairmen, of the 27 local governments in the State not to share relief materials and food items to the wrong people.
He rather charged them to liaise with all political appointees in their domain and ensure that the item get to the vulnerable and less privileged in the society.
Delivering the items to the Interim Management Chairmen of the various 27 LGAs Saturday Governor Uzodinma warned that any act of greed or attempt to share the items to the wrong people would be sanctioned. The Governor gave the councils a template for the distribution and promised to monitor how the template was complied with or not.
The Governor said: “You must show leadership, what is meant for the people is meant for the people and what is meant for the leaders is meant for the leaders; you must remove any sign of greed no matter how small, this is your first test, he warned.”
Responding on behalf of the Interim Management Committee Chairmen, the IMC Chairman of Oru West local government, Hon. Willie Okolieogwo assured that they will follow to the letters the template provided by the Government to distribute the items.
He promised that they will be formidable partners of the state government in the fight against COVID-19 in the state.
All the local governments went home with rice, noodles, groundnut oil, tomato paste, tubers of yam among other items. One hundred thousand naira (₦100,000.00) cash was also given to each INEC ward in the state to enable the people buy other cooking condiments.
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