Imo Council Completes 20 Boreholes, 15 Others

The Isiala-Mbano local government area in Imo State has sunk 20 boreholes and completed 15 other projects during the 2025 fiscal year.

Its chairman, Chika Okoroike, who confirmed this to newsmen in Owerri, said the LGA had nine other ongoing projects in the same year.

Okoroike who assumed office on September 30, 2024, listed the completed projects as an ICT Centre and a hybrid regeneration farm settlement empowered with over 1,000 bunches of improved 4:1:9 cassava stems, all season okro and maize seedlings in Osuh, Ugiri and Mbama wards.

Also completed were the rehabilitation of a songhai farm, with over 500 hybrid plantain suckers, installation of CCTV security cameras across the LGA and the enrollment of 3,000 Isiala-Mbano indigenes in the state’s health insurance scheme at the total cost of N48 million.

Others were a free digital skills acquisition training for 250 youths, rehabilitation of rural roads during the Yuletide and the reconstruction of the Divisional Police Station, among others.

Among the ongoing projects are the construction of a rice mill at Ugiri Oka, reconstruction of NYSC lodge which is nearing completion, and the rehabilitation of the Isiala Mbano LGA secretariat complex.

Other ongoing projects are a feed factory and ultramodern poultry at Oboh ward, a police observation tower at the Umuelemai police station and the popular Nkwo-Mbaa Ugiri gully erosion control project which is almost completed.

Okoroike thanked President Bola Tinubu for making provisions for LGA financial autonomy which he said has “ greatly aided developmental progress “ in rural areas.

He also thanked the state governor, Hope Uzodinma for providing the enabling environment and services necessary for a smooth running of the LGA.

He pledged continued service delivery within the limits of available resources and called on Imo residents to continue supporting people-friendly policies of the government.

He said, “ We will continue to do our best with the resources available to us. The LGA autonomy has come to stay, it is a blessing, and we will not sleep on duty”, he stated.