Less than 24 hours after Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma accused some vested interests of carrying out the various acts of violent crimes across the country with the aim of bringing down the government of President Muhammadu Buhari, he has become a direct target himself.
Vanguard reports that the governor‘s house at his hometown in Omuma, Oru East local government area of Imo state, went up in flames on Saturday morning, after an attack by suspected hoodlums in black and black attire.
The paper, which reported that its reporter was an eyewitness to the attack, said many of the properties were burnt, while sympathisers from the village struggled to extinguish the fire.
The report, also spoke of a lifeless body in front of the house, adding that apart from the house, many other properties including official vehicles belonging to the government and the governor, were set ablaze by the hoodlums.
Uzodinma, had told State House Correspondents after visiting President Muhammadu Buhari, at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, on Friday that the acts of banditry ravaging the country, including the wave of violent attacks and killings in the South East, were the handiwork of enemies of the President, intent on pulling down his government and halting the giant developmental achievements he was making in the country.
Hear him: “From 2015 till today, I thought what the problem would be is people saying that there is no job creation, people are not feeding, salaries are not paid, infrastructures are going down, social interventions are not approved by the government.
“These things are there, available, a passmark for the government of President Muhammadu Buhari. Now, people are no longer talking about that, rather what they are doing is to sponsor crisis, to the extent that those funding this banditry are politicians, which I challenge and call on security agencies to make their names available to the press because what they want to do is to distract a government that is focused.
“If this government is not doing well, I will be one of those that will declare that the government is not doing well, but a situation where you will live the formal way, ethical way of doing politics, and you are now sponsoring banditry to bring down a government, for Christ’s sake, we should rise up and condemn it, all of us.
”This is a security issue, a lot of investigations are going on here and there, preliminary reports are there. People are furthering the investigations. I think I have given you something to go home with. When you go home, think about it and do the homework by yourself.”
Source Vanguard
