PDP Asks Anti-graft Agencies To Probe Council Funds Use In Imo

Imo State section of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called connected the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) to instantly probe however section authorities funds of the authorities are managed.

The publicity caput of the party, Lancelot Obiaku, who made the telephone connected Thursday successful Owerri, the Imo State capital, said contempt the receipt of N620 cardinal by the 27 section authorities areas, the authorities was grappling with decayed healthcare system, mediocre livelihood, acquisition and roadworthy infrastructure.

Further, the PDP called connected EFCC and ICPC to probe the section authorities chairmen, who they said were solely appointed by Uzodimma to explicate the whereabouts of the section authorities funds arsenic determination were nary projects to show.

According to the PDP, since the inception of Governor Hope Uzodimma’s administration, the 27 LGAs of the authorities had received astatine slightest N620 billion, which yielded thing and has not been accounted for,

The enactment added that arsenic of today, nary assembly successful the authorities receives little than N430 cardinal monthly, with Mbaitoli and Isiala Mbano receiving the highest allocations for August astatine N625 cardinal and N577 cardinal respectively.

The PDP said it was astonished however the 27 Imo councils, connected average, received a staggering sum of implicit N13 cardinal monthly successful 2025, N9 cardinal successful 2024, and N7 cardinal successful 2023 from the federation account, yet stay successful pitiable conditions with nary impervious of authorities beingness to warrant the receipt of specified funds.

The enactment said “the PDP, therefore, urges the EFCC and ICPC to probe Imo LGA chairmen, who were virtually appointed by Gov. Hope Uzodimma, to explicate the whereabouts of the sums they person monthly arsenic national allocations. This is particularly captious since determination are nary projects specified arsenic schools, markets, operation oregon rehabilitation of roads, energy projects, oregon assemblage healthcare initiatives — nor is determination immoderate meaningful involution ongoing successful the sanction of immoderate LGA successful the state”.

The enactment called connected the anti-graft agencies to beam their searchlight beyond the LGA chairmen, who according to them, person continued to collude with the authorities authorities by maintaining amerciable accounts to swindle the authorities and plunder the commonwealth of its people.

According to the party, the EFCC president had successful February, said section authorities Chairpersons were not immuned from probe and prosecution for fraudulent activities owed to their deficiency of immunity.

The Imo PDP welcomed the constitution of the Fraud Risk Assessment and Control (FRAC) Department successful the EFCC and expressed hopes that the officials volition sojourn section authorities councils to show the usage of funds from the federation account.

Further, the enactment alerted the anti-graft agencies that superior wellness centres successful assorted communities crossed the state, built decades ago, had go the dwelling spot of rodents, reptiles, and snakes, portion nationalist schools successful astir LGAs had stopped functioning owed to neglect.

According to him, the PDP “bemoans that the section authorities areas of the authorities are successful a authorities of ruin, having nary disposable imprint of the government. It asserts that portion section authorities was created to service arsenic the tier of authorities closest to the radical and to be to their needs, the LGAs nether Gov. Hope Uzodimma’s authorities person been worse than stagnant.

“Roads starring to galore LGA assembly office are impassable, with a fig of agrarian communities rendered uninhabitable owed to atrocious roads that the section governments cannot adjacent grade. We importune that the anti-graft agencies indispensable emergence up present to tame this monumental corruption”, Obiaku said.