In a private meeting at the Presidential Villa on Tuesday, Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State and President Muhammadu Buhari discussed vital infrastructure projects that would improve state security.
The visit comes just a few hours after Ikedi Ohakim, a former governor of the South East state, narrowly avoided gunmen’s onslaught in Mbano.
Four police officers who were travelling in the ex-governor’s convoy were killed as a result of the attack.
The meeting on Tuesday gave Uzodinma the chance to get the state’s request for some security monitoring equipment approved by the president.
Additionally, the visit was to express gratitude to the President for his administration’s assistance in the wake of the Supreme Court decision and since Uzodinma’s inauguration.
In his own words, “I appealed to the President for further support, particularly to support us with some technical deployments, we have planned to be able to undertake an advanced kind of security control in the South East. Additionally, he has given his blessing to that.
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We’ll soon receive certain sophisticated technology and surveillance equipment that will help us manage security and fight crime with little to no collateral damage to the environment.
He made the following statement regarding the assistance received from the Federal Government: “I came on behalf of my people, to also thank Mr. President for the various supports he gave to us during this period of security challenges, and the support he’s also given to us in terms of the various approval.
“The approval that converted Alvan Ikoku College of Education into a federal college of education, and the approval to convert Federal Medical Center Owerri into a University Teaching Hospital for the Federal University of Technology. Just two weeks ago, Igbo who returned from Lagos and elsewhere in the South East benefited from the Second Niger Bridge, which is commendable.
