Rt. Hon. Chief Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi |
Governor Ugwuanyi,
otherwise known as Gburugburu, made
this recent development known while addressing stakeholders at the old
Government Lodge. He solicited for the backing of all stakeholders, as he took
the decision in a bid not to create a vacuum in council administration since
the tenure of the councils would expire on January 4, 2016. The stakeholders
included the deputy president of the Senate, Chief Dr. Ike Ekweremadu, former governor of the state, Barrister Sullivan Chime, former
information minister, Chief Nnia Nwodo,
former minister of Power, Prof. Barth
Nnaji, among others
In Chief Ugwuanyi’s own
words: “Whatever we are doing will be in consonance
with the Local Government Laws. In order to avoid any vacuum on January 4,
2016, caretaker committees will be constituted for the councils and this is in
keeping with the extant laws of the state.”
The governor explained to
the stakeholders his administration’s decision on the council administration. According
to him, his government was eager to get rid of ghost workers common in that
tier of government hence “the on-going council staff audit and other reforms”
in council administration.
Gburugburu reminded the stakeholders
that during the last meeting of the State Caucus at the Government House, it
was agreed that all activities towards the council elections should be put on
hold to enable the committee handling the exercise conclude its assignment.
He said: “It, indeed, appears to be a widely shared view among our
people that it will be unwise and imprudent to conduct elections when this very
important exercise has not been concluded.”
He made it known that the
reason for insufficient funds for the election was that such expenses were not
properly provided for in the state’s 2015 budget. The stakeholders agreed that
the governor constitute the committees and hailed him for the numerous projects
embarked upon and others in the offing.
Also, Chief Ugwuanyi, who
is the immediate past House of Representatives Committee on Marine Transport, revealed
to the stakeholders that the Institute
of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu, would be made a degree-awarding
institution to elevate it to the same level as similar institutions elsewhere
in the country established in the 1970s.
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