Rochas Okorocha Commissions Justice Oputa Court Complex…Says History Will Vindicate Him

Out-going Imo state governor Rochas Okorocha Wednesday admitted
that he been the most misunderstood and most controversial governor
the state has ever produced in the annals of its history because of
his style of governance.

He said that his passion and vision to reposition the state for
greatness makes him to bend rules and regulations in governance,
instead as against breaking such rules, adding that he had no
regret for his actions as history would vindicate him.

The governor who stated this at the official commission of the
new justice Chukwudifu Akunne Oputa High court complex new Owerri
argued that if he had adhered to the usual style of governance, he
would not have succeeded.

“I came in through the window of the masses and not through the
doors of the elite and I am crazy in my vision and passion for a
greater Imo state and nothing has affected my oblongata”.

For resisting and restraining some indigenes of the state to
continue business as usual in government, the governor said that he
had been derided, scorned and maligned as Okoro Hausa and
Aboki.

Enumerating his achievements in the past 8 years, he said “let
my works speak for me after leaving office and I am not in the
business of wasting, the tax payers money to commission projects
because I believe that such fund should be channeled to other
productive ventures”, boasting that he had set a standard which any
incoming governor would not beat.

“My crazy system of governance is working and no governor coming
after me will ever think of building hospitals in Imo for the next
50 years or to build more varsities”. He extolled the late Justice
Chukwudifu Oputa as one of the nation’s greatest patriots who
distinguished themselves in character and assured that their would
be smooth transition and peace in the state even as he promised to
clear all arrears owed to judges in the state before leaving
office.

In his address, the chief Judge of the state, Justice Paschal
Nnadi stressed that the commissioning of the court complex would go
a long way to reduce the current suffocating situation of
insufficient court facilities which he said for many years gave
rise to the uncomfortable situation where 2 or more judges share
one court hall.

“The embarrassment which lack of adequate court halls would have
caused us in Imo state was recently averted by the assignment of
six of our judges to election tribunal duty outside Imo state which
freed their court hall for use by the 5 (five) election petition
Tribunals empanelled for Imo state and now on ground and sitting in
Imo state.

“One can therefore, imagine the sigh of relief and
re-invigoration that the completion and commissioning of this Court
Complex has given to the Judiciary of Imo state”. He gave an
assurance that the state judiciary under his watch would continued
to discharge its constitutional duties of ensuring that Justice is
administered in the state without fear or favour, affection or ill
will stressing that the court complex commissioned would not only
be the court of law but a court where justice would rein supreme in
the state.

Acting Chief Justice of the federation justice Tanko Muhammad
who commissioned the project through Hon. Justice Amina Augie
commended governor Okorocha for providing the structure which he
said would go along way in the dispensation of justice

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