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Uwajimogu |
By Kenneth Uwadi
Benjamin Uwajumogu
is a former Speaker of the Imo State House of Assembly who contested the
2015 Senatorial election but failed woefully . He is currently warming up for
the July 23 Imo Senate rerun election. He has worn out two pairs of Rockport shoes
strolling door to door, tieless, speaking sweet talks to people of
Okigwe zone , including Ihitte Uboma his home town ,
hoping to be taken seriously. Many APC supporters from the zone said
they would not back him “Asking me to vote for Uwajumogu is like asking a
Christian to vote for Satan instead of Jesus,” an APC supporter posted on
Facebook .The stench of past scandals is haunting him as allegations
regarding his activities as Speaker fester.
I am not
from Okigwe zone but as
an Imo man I must confess that I am not one of his
fans. When Uwajumogu was the Speaker of Imo House of Assembly he
dealt with what seemed like an endless supply of ‘Imo tax payer’s money’. From
June 2011 to May 2015 he connived with the governor of Imo state to siphon local
government funds. He also supported the sack of 10,000 Imo workers
. It was also during his tenure as Speaker that this suffering of Imo
people began. It is on record that high catalogue of withdrawals,
misappropriation, disregard to public procurement rules, disregard of court
rulings happened when he was Speaker . He connived with Ali Baba,
aided and abetted gross financial impropriety in Imo. There are so many things
to talk about. What about the abortion bill?
As a
world-class liar that he is, Uwajumogu tried to distance himself from the sack
of the 10,000 workers but we know the truth. We know the truth about this man who
is the most corrupt person ever to handle the position of speaker of the
Imo State House of Assembly. We know much about this failed Speaker
who should not be trusted with leadership position anymore.
When he was Speaker he perfected the politics of personal profit and theft.
Wherever he goes, whatever he does , truth was trashed and criminal
conduct followed him like night follows day. That is why we named
him the Bertie Smalls of Imo State. His former Media Aide Ikenna Samuelson Iwuoha
revealed how he looted millions of Imo tax payers money .
Iwuoha
disclosed how fraudulent contracts for road projects worth billions of
naira were awarded by Uwajumogu and how the
Speaker used the proceeds of the crime to acquire several properties in
Nigeria such as : N500 million naira Asphalt plant along Onitsha road
Owerri,15 mansions along Chief Ben Uwajumogu Street, Federal Housing Estate
Umuguma Owerri – West LGA ,Jasmine Hotels and Suites behind Imo Concorde Hotel
valued at over N70 million, over 200 plots of land located in
Owerri West LGA,N400million naira Mansion at Ihitte /Uboma,2 other
mansions at Ihitte/Uboma,Mansions in Aba and Umuahia,N760 million
naira Crush Rock Industry in Ebonyi State,N500 million naira private hotel in
Abuja,N750 million naira private hotel in Lagos. Even the Imo State liason
office in Abuja was sold to him for N70 million naira which he has since
converted to his private hotel.
Uwajumogu
ran the Imo State House of Assembly like his own personal
hedge fund doing favors to other thieving cables and many others and
really many, many others in exchange for cash, pure and simple. There’s another
dimension to his chronic crookedness, and it gets insufficient attention even
though it is important we look deeply into it. Three of his
aides were assassinated and a fourth one escaped assassination. Nobody asked why.
But I am still asking who killed these men? One day the
truth will come up.
Benjamin
Uwajumogu is from Ihitte Uboma LGA. I recently visited Ihitte Uboma
during my Imo community project tour and I saw the poor
condition of the LGA. I am asking what happened to council funds of the
LGA ? Where are the local roads for Ihitte Uboma, where are the health care
centres, good schools and standard markets? What about water projects ?
What about jobs for the youths? Where are the projects for
development in Ihitte Uboma? Lack of basic amenities has made the
place a ghost environment. Yet this man wants to represent Okigwe
zone in the Senate. What is he going there to do? Is he going there to
sleep? Is he going there so as to arrest and jail all those who opposed
him the same way he put Samuelson Iwuoha and his wife in jail for 11 months? He
even struggled seriously to put me behind bars for criticizing him. God pass
them.
It’s
self-delusional to believe that a stint in the Senate would make
Uwajumogu a better person. Power exacerbates rather than cures an absence of
integrity. Now that he is jobless he is seeing what 10,000 persons and
their families that he and the emperor took food away from their
mouth saw. His calls are no longer answered by those who hitherto held
him in high esteem. He is now viewed as a liability. He now has to hire
transport for his family,
pay all his phone, rent, electricity expenses. He is now in dire financial
straits. His huge mansions with multiple self contained bedrooms and cars have
become a liability . I tell you all those that contributed to the sufferings of
Imolites one way or the other will be shown the backhand .
(Uwadi wrote from Mmahu-Egbema,
Imo State, Nigeria)
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