Politics | 2023: Okorocha fouled Imo and lacks merit to aspire for Aso Rock
2023: Okorocha fouled Imo and lacks merit to aspire for Aso Rock
As the shamed and disgraced ex-governor of Imo State, Owelle Ethelbert Anayo Okorocha, also known as "Rochas", makes his formal public declaration of his laughable aspiration to occupy the office of the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2023, there arises the need to provide contrary views that would outrightly deflate his claims to being qualified for the plum job at Aso Rock.
Surely, Rochas Okorocha will struggle to reel out disguised and embellished crass dishonesty and insincerity about his ruinous eight-year stewardship in Imo State for himself, his family, his friends and his associates, but definitely not for Imo people.
But, whatever he said, unmolestable truth is that it'll amount to a gang-rape of the sensibilities of the unwary members of the public for Rochas to claim to be a good presidential material after his rapacious ruin of Imo State in all ramifications.
Ideally, this is the time when relevant security agencies and authorities should subject Rochas to justice and bring him to book for all the atrocities established against him by official judicial panels of inquiry, and statutorily instituted committees that probed his eight-year ruin of Imo State and Imo people.
The Nigeria Police, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the Nigerian judiciary and other relevant anti-crime and law enforcement agencies should be on duty now to effect their responsibility to the people of Imo State in particular, and Nigerians at large.
Time is past when indicted felons should be watched until they misappropriate positions and offices of national and state duty and responsibility, only to deepen the nefarious acts, actions and activities that they have earned notoriety for.
Senator Rochas Okorocha, an ex-governor of Imo State and now a questionable Senator of the Federal Republic, was in the not too distant past indicted by a Judicial Panel of Inquiry that was constituted by the Government of Imo State to look into the acquisition of land and related matters between 2006 and 2019.
The Panel discovered that Senator Rochas Okorocha ingloriously misappropriated about one thousand plots of land and landed property belonging to Government of Imo State and to some Imo people.
The Panel recommended the total unabridged forfeiture of the stolen property by the indicted ex-governor and authorized the sitting governor, Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma, to recover all the misappropriated property by the ex-governor.
Consequently, Governor Uzodimma swung into action and has since recovered a state-owned university from Rochas Okorocha, as well as recovered the near one thousand land that were unlawfully and illegally acquired by the ex-governor.
Significantly, Governor Uzodimma, in addition to recovering the stolen property from the ex-governor, has also successfully returned the recovered land to both Government of Imo State, and the rightful owners.
The point in issue here, therefore, is that it beats all sensible and reasonable imaginations how a Rochas Okorocha who has been so ignobly exposed and indicted for abuse of office at school level can dare to nurse the ambition and aspiration to the office of the President of Nigeria?
That's even more so when there are extant lawsuits in the courts that were insituted against Rochas Okorocha by the EFCC. Should such judicially proven dishonest citizens with questionable ceevees be given the leave to aspire for elective offices, ab initio?
Am strongly persuaded with the humble opinion that prevention is always better than cure. Allowing indicted and convicted felons to participate in any way and at any level of elective politics ab initio is simply creating room for the felons to perfect their characteristic nefarious activities and perpetrating crimes they have notoriety for orchestrating.
Be that as it may, however, I'll rest my case on this topic with the re-emphasis that Senator Rochas Okorocha doesn't have the backup support of the Government and people of Imo State in the enterprise of questing for the office of president, which isn't as private and personal as he with many will think. Let holistic goodness guide the thoughts, thinking and actions on the subject matter. Thank you.
