A National Caucus and Board of Trustees (BoT) member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Prince Benjamin Apugo has lauded Governor Alex Otti for setting up the Judicial Panel of Inquiry for the Recovery of Government properties and Funds, saying it were only looters in the state that will condemn the move.
Speaking in Umuahia, Apugo said officials of the previous administrations looted the state so blind that no Governor who would want to develop the state and the people take him seriously, will not want to recover such properties and funds.
“These people looted the state blind and no Governor who will not only want to rebuild the state, but want to have the trust and confidence of his people, will not want to recover the looted funds”.
On the recovery of Government properties, Apugo urged the Panel to beam its searchlight proper on the activities of the government before that of Ikpeazu’s.
“That Government did some many things wrong hiding under PIU, they forcefully collected people’s land without compensation and in turn allocated them free to their cronies.
“To perfect their atrocities, the Governor then removed a qualified Town Planner which the law establishing the PIU required and brought in a barber as the General Manager who was doing his bidding”.
Responding to misgivings in some quarters that the probe shouldn’t have targeted at Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu’s administration alone, Apugo said it was always good to state from somewhere.
“I am not in Government, but as an individual, I will like both the administrations of T.A Orji and Ikpeazu to be probed, but if Gov Otti in his wisdom decided to probe that of Ikpeazu for now, so be it, after all, it is said in Igbo land, ‘one will use the chic to get the mother hen’.
He asked Otti not to listen to those threatening hell and brimstone over the Panel since they are not the Abians whose properties and funds were looted.
“Otti should not listen to those threatening hell and brimstone over the Panel, they are not Abians who own the money, but are looters of the said funds; nobody who was not involved in the looting should be worried about the Panel”.
On Otti’s suspension of all Permanent Secretaries and the HoS in the state, Apugo said it was the right thing to be done.
“There is no way he would have allowed those who were part of the problems all these years to remain in office; they would have remained cog in the wheel of progress of his administration and Abia would not have been better.
“That was the problem former President, Muhammadu Buhari had. When he came in, instead of removing Godwin Emefiele as CBN Governor, Buhari allowed him, Emefiele dealt with Nigerians and at the end disgraced himself”, Apugo said.
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