Imo In Safe Hands Under Uzodimma: Jones

 

His Excellency Distinguished Senator Hope Uzodimma, CON, GSSRS is determined on ensuring transparency in land administration and other related businesses in the State, and it is important to inform all Imo residents and those who may be willing to do business in Imo State, that Imo remains the safest State in the country to channel all your investments to.

The governor has invested enormously towards ensuring absolute transparency in the real estate related investments in the State, while, making sure that no individual, no matter, how highly placed is exempted from supervision, when it comes to the issue of land acquisition, regulation, documentation and other matters in the State.

While acknowledging that previous administrations in the State left a lot of gaps in the area of land acquisition and estate development, the governor has not rested on his oars in his determination to clean up all controversies surrounding estates development and land acquisition in the State.

The governor takes note of some complaints coming from acclaimed land owners in the different parts of the State, and it is imperative to reassure every investor, that any land, legitimately acquired, anywhere in the State, is safe, as the governor shall not allow anyone who legitimately invested in the State to lose, even a strip of their lands, anywhere in the State.

It is important to reiterate that no appointee of the governor is above the law, and the governor shall not spare anyone of his appointees who abuses the trust invested in them, by using their offices to harass or extort innocent citizens and investors in the State. However, the governor shall not be blackmailed into abandoning any reforms he has sanctioned in any sector in the State.

Investors in Imo State are urged to follow, only, approved channels in rectifying all issues relating to their earlier acquired landed properties in the State. The governor will not relent in ensuring that all illegally acquired lands, anywhere in the State are recovered for the use and benefit of the State. 

Those who work in the real estate sector in the State are encouraged to ensure that they do their due diligence, before inviting clients to enter into any transaction related to landed properties in the State, as the governor is unwavering in his commitment to ensuring that those who misused responsibilities given to them in the past to appropriate State lands to themselves and their cronies, are made to surrender such lands.

Onwuasoanya FCC Jones is Special Adviser to the Governor of Imo State on Public Communication.