Yesterday, young people from Nkpologu community in Uzo-Uwani LGA, Enugu State, informed Governor Peter Mbah about the N20 million that his predecessor had given the community for the supply of electricity in their town.
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They claimed that their traditional ruler and other individuals had embezzled the money. The teenagers stated that it was necessary to expose their ruler because of his stance on the hot-button subject, setting the stage for their previous appeal for the governor to halt the candidacy of one of their sons as an LG chairman.
In a statement made public by the head of the Enugu youth, Cyprain Chukwuka, the former governor of Enugu State, said that Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi had kindly given N20 million to our traditional ruler, Simeon Idu, and others during his time to provide electricity to our town.
However, they shamelessly embezzled the funds and utterly failed to complete the project.
“We appealed to them severally to provide electricity which our town never had but they connived with the contractor and dished out bribes to some of our town union leaders and they continued to oppress us.”
“We then took the case up with the government and police but all our efforts to either recover the money or make them provide the much needed electricity failed because they continued using some fraudulent people in government to thwart our genuine efforts to give electricity to our long suffering people. At a stage, they started threatening to jail all of us but somehow, we survived their threats. They were even boasting openly that the matter will be closed permanently as soon as then Governor Ugwuanyi leaves office.”
“We were planning to notify our new able governor, Peter Mbah of the atrocities of our traditional ruler and others when the issue of our son who was slated to me chairman of our Local government came up. The traditional ruler and his partners in crime are now devilishly using this opportunity to denounce our honest and genuine cry for justice over the killing of one of us believing that if governor hearkens to our cry, they will be exposed.”
“He further stated that they are using this medium to cry out because they have nobody to reach out to the governor for them adding that if they had been able to get any genuine and trusted spokespersons to deliver their anger to the governor, they would not have resorted to publicising their grievances.”
“We massively voted for Governor Peter Mbah and we are very happy with his achievements so far in office. We are not indicting him but pointing areas where he should straighten in continuation of his commendable records which is well know to us and we will never relent in supporting him,” he stated.
