The Governor of Abia State, Alex Otti, has vowed to sustain his government’s anti-graft war against corruption and recover all looted government funds and properties in the hands of alleged corrupt persons in the state.
The governor said he is unperturbed by the wailing and crying of those who have been milking the state dry for the past 24 years, stating that their cry is expected because he (Otti) has removed their mouth from the ‘feeding bottle.’
Otti, who recently set up a Panel of Inquiry to investigate the immediate past administration of his predecessor, Okezie Ikpeazu, vehemently vowed to fish out those whose mouths are still on the feeding bottle.
“It is also not uncommon for you to hear people wailing and crying; that is expected because, for the past 24 years, some people had put their mouths on the feeding bottle, and since we came, we removed their mouths.
“There may be a few people whose mouths we have not seen, and that is why we have the Panel. We will fish out those people and remove their mouths from the feeding bottle,” he vowed.
Governor Otti made the vow in Umuahia on Sunday during a thanksgiving service of the Deputy Speaker of the Abia State House of Assembly, Hon. Austin Okezie Meregini, held at St. Ann’s Catholic Church.
Addressing the Church congregants, he explained that various changes he had made so far in the State’s Civil Service and the dissolution of various Boards in the State were geared towards rebuilding Abia, and he vowed that every stolen public fund and property would be recovered through the recently inaugurated Panel of Inquiry.
To the cheering of his audience, the governor while responding to the claims of his critics that he is undemocratic, said that public funds and property should be used for the good of the people, not to be siphoned by a corrupt few.
“The feeding bottle is for all of us. So anytime that happens, you will hear them screaming, ‘The man is undemocratic; the man wants to spoil the State’. We have not come to spoil; we have come to rebuild.
“So, if the rebuilding tastes like spoiling to them, we can’t understand, but we cannot sympathize with them,” Otti thundered.
