Gov Uzodimma inaugurates new board chairmen, members
(Nigeria) Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State, has inaugurated the Interim Board and
Management of Heartland Football Club, Imo Specialist Hospital Umuguma, Primary
Health Care Development Agency, PHCDA and Imo State Oil Producing Area
Development Commission, ISOPADEC, with a charge to members to live above board.
Performing the inauguration ceremony at the Executive
Chambers, Government House Owerri, the Governor congratulated them on their
appointments and enjoined them to use their positions to selflessly serve the
people and make them happy.
He said Imo people have not known happiness during the past
administrations and admonished the boards and their management to work hard to
take the various establishments and the State to an enviable height, reminding
them that their “appointments are coming from God” and not from man.
Representatives of those inaugurated are: Dr Prosper
Ohayara, Chairman, Imo Specialist Hospital Umuguma with Dr Kaunda Ibebuike as
Chief Medical Director (CMD); HRH Eze Dele Odigbo, Chairman of ISOPADEC with
Chief Charles Orie as Managing Director (MD); Dr Joseph Chinemerem, Chairman of Primary Health Care
Development Agency (PHCDA) with Rev. Sis. Kelechi Uzoma as Executive Secretary;
and Chief Charles Ezekwem, Chairman, Interim Management Committee of Heartland
Football Club with Chief Ifeanyi Chukwudi as General Manager (GM).
Addressing the concerns of each Board and her establishment,
the governor said the Interim Management Board of Heartland FC should commence
work immediately, work out the roadmap that will see to its revival and help
strengthen the Football Club.
He specifically charged them to make concerted efforts to
reposition the Club and bring it back to an enviable height of its past glory.
Addressing the Board of Specialist Hospitals, Governor
Uzodimma charged them to work towards restoring people’s confidence in the
services of the Hospital, ensure that the core mandate for establishing the
hospital is realized and that they work hard to achieve self-funding that is
currently lacking.
To Primary HealthCare Board, the Governor appealed to the
members to look at the plight of Imo citizens and think of possible ways of
reviving and reinvigorating the Primary HealthCare Centres in Imo State to
achieve efficiency, effectiveness and functionality.
He regretted a situation where survey and reports from data
indicate that all Primary HealthCare Centres in Imo State are all moribund, a
situation he said, “has caused the State some avoidable deaths.”
To the Board of ISOPADEC, Governor Uzodimma reminded them
that ISOPADEC is highly misunderstood by many as “where people go to share
money” and emphasized that “there is no money to share.”
Rather, he said “every single money that accrues to the
establishment must be used to develop the oil producing communities, complete
all abandoned projects and effect the necessary changes.” He insisted that, “it is no longer business as
usual.”
The Governor who said he was satisfied with the calibre of
Chairmen and members of the various Boards and Agencies described all them as
grade “A”.
“It is the people
with the capacity, those managing the Boards that make it what it is.”
Governor Uzodimma urged them to use their wealth of
experience to restore the core mandate of the laws establishing their various
agencies, stressing that his administration will always base appointments on
merit not minding tribe, religion or language, to ensure those who have the
ability to perform and reposition the State are given the opportunity to serve.
The Governor reiterated his administration’s readiness to
correct the wrongs done to Imo people by past governments, warning against
continuing with “business as usual mentality.”
He promised to resist any person or group of persons who
would want to bring down the glory of Imo in any guise, emphasizing that
“nobody has the monopoly of violence, no one should go to generate violence,
and no one can do anything more than Government.”
The Governor reminded the Board members that the current
government in Imo State takes the prosperity of the people seriously, hence
they should go to their establishments and ensure they “give Imo people
prosperity by healing the wounds of the past.”
While praying to God to guide and direct them in their duty,
the Governor said he is not looking for
prosperity for himself, rather working for the benefit of Imo people and
enjoined the Board and their members to serve the people they represent well.
Earlier while presenting the Board members to the Governor
for inauguration, the Secretary to the State Government, Chief Cosmas Iwu said
they are all men and women of proven integrity with the capacity to deliver on
their mandate. He prayed the Governor to inaugurate them.
In his acceptance speech on behalf of other Board Chairmen
and members, the Chairman of ISOPADEC Board, HRH Eze (Prof.) Onuigbo who is
also the traditional ruler of Nkwesi Autonomous Community in Oguta Local
Government Area thanked the Governor for finding worthy to serve and promised
that they will not disappoint him and Imo people.
He said they will put in their best with their wealth of
experience and join hands with the Governor in his 3R mantra agenda of
administration to make Imo people happy.
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