Senator Rochas Okorocha has accused the Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma of selling his personal vehicles, those of his aides and Rochas Foundation College.
According to Okorocha, the vehicles were seized when his wife’s Royal Palm Hotel was sealed by the state government last year.
In a statement signed by his Special Adviser(Media), Sam Onwuemeodo, Okorocha expressed surprise that the impounded vehicles were not taken to state Police Command headquarters but to the Government House where four have already been auctioned for N4 million.
The statement reads in part: “The government has gone ahead to auction the private cars of the former governor of the state, those of his security personnel, those of his aides, political associates, those of Rochas Foundation College and so on , who were with him on the day the attack at Royal Palm Hotel took place. In doing that, they had thrown caution to the wind.”
“ln all the cases involving Okorocha and lmo State Government, including the one decided by Justice Njemanze (retd), which is now at the Appeal Court, the government never mentioned Okorocha’s personal cars and those of his aides, associates, his security details, Rochas Foundation College, et al.
“There are also valuable materials and documents in some of the vehicles, including international passports. One had expected that the Police would have taken all those items or materials and documents into their custody.”
However, reacting to the statement, Declan Emelumba, the commissioner for Information and strategy described the allegations as false.
“The place is still been sealed. You can see that he(Okoroch) is not telling the truth.”
”At any case, the government has seized that place and it does not belong to Okorocha again. It is government property so how can government sell its own property. The truth of the matter is that he is raising a false alarm. Police are still there.”
