Uzodimma Winning Fight Against Insecurity, Says Aide

Special adviser to Imo State governor on politics and head of political bureau, Barrister Enyinna Onuegbu has scored Governor Hope Uzodimma high in the fight against insecurity that besieged the administration in its early days.

Onuegbu made this comment when he interacted with newsmen yesterday in Owerri, the state capital. The former commissioner for lands said the insecurity that ravaged the state has been drastically checked, limiting it to just one local government area, which he said is still festering because of some disgruntled politicians acting as enablers.

The Ngor Okpala-born lawyer cum politician said that it is the responsibility of Imo people to support the governor to tackle the insecurity in the state by condemning the hoodlums, and not indirectly supporting the criminals through comments that favour the brigandage and the perpetrators.

He gave example with Anambra State where he said the governor there is gradually reining in the bandits causing the crisis, through the help of top politicians in the state who give backing to Governor Chukwuma Soludo devoid of political leanings.
Onuegbu maintained that insecurity knows no one, just as stray bullet knows no religion, age, political party, sex and called on Imo people to support Governor Uzodimma to clean the state of bad characters.
He called on the media to help educate Imo masses of the laudable projects of the Uzodimma administration, such as the Orlu/Owerri and Okigwe/Owerri Roads already completed and the Owerri/Umuahia road recently flagged off, and not devoting space to fictitious killings and other “over-hyped crimes” which he said, scare visitors away from the state, when in real fact, such stories are false.
The governor’s aide appealed for mutual relationship between the government and media houses based in the state.
A publisher, Chief Henry Ekpe, said media outfits were ready to help sell the government’s policies, but added that it is only when government officials make such information available, since reporters are not spirits to know where governor’s projects are located.
He advised the Uzodimma administration to dwell more on telling the masses what the government has done, rather than waste much energy on propaganda and fighting imaginary enemies.