Imo Assembly Tasks Okorocha On COE Facilities

The Imo Assembly has
    adopted a motion urging the state governor to provide facilities for the take-off of the proposed College of Education in Ihitte Uboma local government area.
Moving the motion during plenary recently in Owerri, Dr Uche Ejiogu (APC- Ihite Uboma), noted that the state needed a new College of Education with the upgrade of Alvan Ikoku College of Education to a University of Education.
“The take-off of the college will provide the much needed middle level manpower for the education sector in the state.”
The lawmaker also said that a new College of Education would ensure the admission of more students into tertiary institutions yearly.
Supporting the motion, Mr Lawson Duruji (APC- Ehime Mbano), stated that the successful takeoff of the programme would enhance the revenue of the state and create employment.
The Speaker of the Assembly, Mr Iheanacho Ihim (Okigwe- APC), urged the state governor to facilitate the completion of infrastructure at the proposed College of Education.
In another development, the Imo government has began the demolition of illegal structures in Owerri to give it a face lift.
Governor Rochas Okorocha said the move was make Owerri one of the cleanest state capitals in the country.
Okorocha, represented by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Sam Onwuemedo, decried the rate at which mechanics, other artisans and other individuals littered the city.
He directed all the artisans in the state capital to move to their permanent site in Avu in Owerri West local government area.
The governor also expressed displeasure at commercial motorists who abandoned the designated parks to pick passengers on the road, thereby constituting obstruction on the highways.
Okorocha also warned articulated truck drivers to desist from plying Owerri roads during the day, adding that a task-force and mobile court had been constituted to prosecute offenders.
Similarly, the governor decried the indiscriminate construction of churches in the state capital without approval, adding that such buildings would soon be demolished.
He lamented the massive damage erosion had caused in parts of the state and even Owerri, and blamed this on indiscriminate construction on waterways as well as non-compliance to the master plan.
Okorocha advised those building gates and caskets in Amakohia in Owerri North to move to the designated areas.
He appealed to indigenes of the state to bear with the government as it worked to transform the landscape of Owerri into a beautiful city.