Okorocha denies being slapped by evil spirit

Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha, on Monday, denied ever being slapped by an evil spirit nor was he afflicted with any strange illness as rumoured in some quarters.

Okorocha, who decried the report and rumoured death peddled against him by some faceless individuals said that he had a lot to accomplish for Imo people adding that “it is God who protects a man and the vision in him.”

The governor said this in a media chart with newsmen, when he also accused opposition parties in the state of master minding the rumors of death against him, describing the act as the height of enmity and opposition which he said both the late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Awolowo and Dr. Michael Okpara never suffered.

He advised the people of the state to ignore the rumor mongers, their agents and collaborators, regretting that believing in deity  and river goddess has kept the state in perpetual bondage.

Said he, ”We must never surrender our state to deities because these are some of the things that have continued to hold us down. Some people do not want to hear anything positive in the government but only the negative ones but I am prepared to change this with my rescue mission programme”, he assured.

Okorocha also read a final riot act to indigenes of Owerri Municipal Council who are still opposed to the proposed relocation of the Owerri main market (Eke-Ukwu Owere), saying that there is no going back on the project.

He warned that the relocation which would soon be soon be carried out would entail total demolition of all structures in the market in line with his “urban renewal and Imo my pride programme”, just as he advised traders and in the market to move their wares to the new site of the market which situates on the out-sketch of the Owerri Capital City without further delay.

The governor who similarly directed all mechanics in the city to relocate to the Avu mechanic village said that henceforth all vehicles not found at the mechanics village would be impounded and a penalty fee of N10, 000 imposed on the owner.

He also warned the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC in the State still reluctant to embrace his novelty of three days for work and two days for farming for civil servants in the State to have a rethink, stressing that the measure was in the best interest of the workers and the state.

The governor regretted that 99.9% of Civil servants in the state are not computer literate and disclosed that 3000 computer literate graduates who would be trained by experts from South Africa would be recruited into the state Civil service to stimulate it.