and 38 Health facilities including all the general hospitals in the
state to inject life into them and make them effective and productive
to achieve the aims of establishing them.
The state government also suspended some permanent secretaries,
Directors of Accounts and few other officials who were indicted by the
report of the recent verification and audit exercise carried out in
the state.
Most of these parastatals and Health facilities according to
government have continued to enjoy the government's "huge monthly
subventions without any thing to show for such cash investments."
Some of the parastatals listed for concessioning are those of Imo
Newspapers, Imo Orientation Agency, NEPAD, Imo ADP, Agric Loans Board,
Water Corporation, PFMU and PSGRDP, Consumer Protection Council, Imo
State Council for Arts and Culture, Imo State Sports Council, Imo
State Tourism Board, Imo State Zoological Garden, Imo State Library
Board, Imo Job Centre and Imo State Investment Promotion Agency.
Others are the State Directorate for Employment, Okigwe Cattle Market,
Imo Livestock, Ministry of Agric and Natural Resources Shop,
Niger-Delta Bureau, Poverty Alleviation Bureau, IWADA, Bureau for
Public Procurement and Price Intelligence, ENTRACO, Imo Marketing
Company, Imo Blue Lake Oguta and Imo Essential Drug.
Health facilities the government has also listed to concession their
managements are the General Hospitals and Health Centres in the 27
Local Government Areas in the state including the General Hospitals at
Aboh Mbaise, Ngor Okpala, Ihitte Uboma, Okigwe, Aro-ndizogu, Mberi,
Awo Omama, Oguta, Ogwa, Ohaji Egbema and the Specialist Hospital,
Umugwuma.
In the case of the Health Centres and General Hospitals, the
government said it concessioned their respective managements to give
them the needed teeth to make the Health-care delivery system in the
state responsive, effective and service-oriented especially when the
government's experience in the affected Health outfits have been
nauseating.
In addition to the concession, the government has also dissolved the
Youth Must Work Scheme with the aim of re-organising it and making it
more efficient to achieve the goal for which it was set up
However, the government said that Primary and Secondary teachers
recruited under the Youth Must Work Scheme would not be affected by
the dissolution.
Also dissolved, the statement said is the elected officials of the
Community Government councils (CGC), adding that the action was also
designed to help in repositioning the CGC to make it very vibrant and
result-oriented.
In the same vein, the state government disclosed that it has taken
over Imo State Teaching Hospital staff Primary School at Orlu and FSP
Primary School Ugwu-orji, Owerri to enable them enjoy the free
education programme of the state government and also take the two
schools to the expected level in terms of quality.
Meanwhile, the Governor, Rochas Okorocha has directed the immediate
payment of salary arrears of all the staff in the affected parastatals
listed for concession, the hospitals and health centres also affected,
and those of CGC.
While appealing to
indigenes of the state for their cooperation and understanding, the
governor explained that the actions were taken in the overall interest
of the state and her people, adding that it was designed to keep the
state on the fast lane of development.
-NationalMirror
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