Okorocha Appoints His Own Wife As Imo State Amnesty Committee Chairman

Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State has appointed his wife as the Chairman of Amnesty Committee Chairman.

 Following the surrendering of arms and embracing of peace by avenger militants fighting in the oil producing areas of Ohaji/Egbema and Oguta, the Governor had flagged off a Committee and two others, including Committee on the Review of the Activities and Infrastructural Development of state owned higher institutions, and the Technical Committee for the take-off of the Eastern Palm University, Ogboka, Imo State.

To demonstrate the importance of the Amnesty Committee, the Governor appointed his wife, Nneoma Nkechi Okorocha, First Lady of the State as Chairman while the Transition Committee chairmen of the oil producing local government areas of Ohaji/Egbema and Oguta, the Assembly members from the two state constituencies, the Managing Director of Imo State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (ISOPADEC) and the Special Assistant to the Governor on Niger Delta, are members.

The Governor charged the newly constituted Committees to come up with programs and ideas that would ensure the sustenance of the peace recently restored in the oil producing areas following the positive response of the avenger militants fighting in the area’s to the Governor’s call on them to put down their guns and embrace peace.

He further urged them to address all the issues the repented militants had raised when they surrendered, and that with the revelations from the changed militants, it was discovered that the oil companies operating in the areas have been igniting some of these troubles for their own selfish reasons.