Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has pledged to reclaim money and property believed to be in the possession of corrupt individuals in the state.
He has promised that his government will cut off the ‘feeding bottle’ of the State to stop additional people from stealing public money and property.
Otti committed in Umuahia during the Hon. Austin Okezie Meregini, Deputy Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly, thanksgiving service.
He stated that he had already made numerous adjustments to the State’s civil service and dissolved several State Boards to rebuild Abia. He further promised to retrieve every stolen public fund and item through the recently established Panel of Inquiry.
“It is also not uncommon for you to be hearing people wailing and crying; that is expected because for the past 24 years, some people had put their mouths on the feeding bottle and since we came we removed their mouths.
“There may be a few people whose mouths we have not seen and that is why we have the Panel. We will fish out those people and remove their mouths from the feeding bottle”, he stated.
Governor Alex Otti highlighted the importance of public resources and property benefiting the public instead of being monopolized by a corrupt few.
“The feeding bottle is for all of us. So anytime that happens, you will hear them screaming, the man is undemocratic, the man wants to spoil the State’. We have not come to spoil, we have come to rebuild.
“So, if the rebuilding tastes like spoiling to them, we can’t understand but we cannot sympathize with them,” Otti thundered, to the cheering of Church members.”
cc: Daily Post Ng
