The Imo State government has said President Muhammadu Buhari, will visit Imo State on September 13
Imo State Commissioner of Information, Declan Emelumba, said the President is expected in the State to commission the 36 kilometre dualized Owerri/Orlu road and the first phase of the dualized 53 kilometre Owerri/Okigwe Road.
According to him, the President will also commission the refurbished Imo State House of Assembly during the visit.
“The two roads have made a difference in the economic development and improvement of the State cutting across over seven Local Governments.” he said.
Supported at the briefing by the Hon. Commissioners for Works, Barr. Ralph Nwosu; Housing, Lady Love Ineh; the Chief Political Adviser and Head Political Bureau, Barr. Enyinna Onuegbu and the Chief Press Secretary/Media Adviser to the Governor, Oguwike Nwachuku, Emelumba explained that “Mr. President will also commission the rebuilt Imo State House of Assembly Complex.”
Emelumba said: “The Assembly Complex has been re-equipped and re-furbished with state of the art equipment/gadgets and furniture that have brought it to a world class standard and in fact, the best in Nigeria today.”
In another development, the Commissioner informed that the Executive Council has discovered to her chagrin that a new fraud has quietly crept back into the automation process in the public service of the State whereby personnel who are either retired or dead and are no longer working, still get payrolled for salaries every month.
To forestall the fraud, the Exco has directed all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to immediately carry out staff audit to ascertain the appropriate people that are supposed to receive salaries and ensure all leakages are plugged. In addition, the Exco directed that henceforth the payroll of Civil Servants for salaries and emoluments must now be sent to MDAs for verification and confirmation before they are paid