By Arthur Madumere, Owerri
The Imo State Government today Friday 19th of February, 2021, claimed that it has recovered the Royal Palm Estate along Akachi road in compliance with the directive of the Imo state gazette on the report of the Judicial Commission of Enquiry on recovery of Lands and other related matters.
This is as a result of the recommendation of the commission that all illegal lands and structures acquired by the previous administrations between 2006 – 2019.
The present administration is therefore not resting on its oars in recovering all the stolen properties of the state especially those carted away by the previous administrations and in line with the 3R mantra initiative of the State governor, Senator Hope Uzodimma.
According to the Honourable Commissioner for lands in Imo State, Barr. Enyinnaya Onuegbu, while briefing IgbereTv, “the state must continue to work in line with the relevant laws and recommendations of government agencies and commissions no matter whose ox is gored.
“You may recall that the judicial commission of enquiry on recovery of lands and other related matters was one out of the many panels constituted by the Emeka Ihedioha’s administration which Gov. Hope Uzodimma has demonstrated high sense of political maturity and playing above party politics to allow the panels work and adopt their recommendations”, he concluded.
The Royal Palm Estate is one of the many properties that the erstwhile governor of Imo State and currently a senator, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, owned with his family and largely believed to be from the purse of the state government while he held sway.
