Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo state has wield the stick, sacking 20 out of his 27 commissioners in a swoop, apparently to sanitize his cabinet giving the growing insecurity in the state.
Sources claimed that the sack of the Commissioners is not unconnected with means of getting rid of those in his cabinet who may have in one way or the other allegedly compromised or expressed reservations over his administrative style, the deployment of soldiers against innocent citizens of the state and those suspected to be sympathetic to the Indigenous People of Biafra.
However, the Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Declan Emelumba who confirmed the dissolution of the cabinet to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Owerri, said it was to restructure the governor’s administration to further achieve his numerous projects of the 3R of Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Recovery agenda.
Emelumba said the eight commissioners that were retained included information and Strategy, Works, Finance, Health and Youths.Others were Tourism, Technology and Women Affairs.
According to him, the governor wants to rejig his administration and soon he will reconstitute his cabinet to further achieve his agenda for Imo people,” he said.
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